Languages of community : the Jewish experience in the Czech lands Hillel J. Kieval

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kieval, Hillel J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Czech Republic--Intellectual life--18th century.

Jews.

Jews--Czech Republic--Intellectual life--19th century.

Jews--Identity.

Czech Republic--Ethnic relations.

Czech Republic.

Physical Description:

xi, 311 pages : map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.

Summary:

The author examines the Jewish experience of the past two hundred years in Bohemia and Moravia (the present day Czech Republic), including history, myth, demograohics, biography, culture and politics.

Contents:

Czech landscape, Habsburg crown: the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia to 1918

Caution's progress: enlightenment and tradition in Jewish Prague, 1780-1830

The social vision of Bohemian Jews: intellectuals and community in the 1840s

Pursuing the Golem of Prague: Jewish culture and the invention of a tradition

On myth, history, and national belonging in the nineteenth century

Education and national conflict: Germans, Czechs, and Jews

Jan Hus and the prophets: fashioning a Czech Judaism at the turn of the century

Death and the nation: ritual murder as political discourse in the Czech lands

Masaryk and Czech Jewry: the ambiguities of friendship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-306) and index.

ISBN:

0520214102

9780520214101

OCLC:

42717206

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