Bohemia's Jews and Their Nineteenth Century : Texts, Contexts, Reassessments / Jindrich Toman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toman, Jindřich, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Czech Republic--Bohemia--History.

Jews.

Jews--Czech Republic--Prague--History--19th century.

Jews, Czech--19th century.

Jews, Czech.

Jews in literature--19th century.

Jews in literature.

Jews--Czech Republic--Bohemia--Identity--19th century.

Jews--Cultural assimilation--Czech Republic--Bohemia--19th century.

Bohemia (Czech Republic)--Ethnic relations--History--19th century.

Bohemia (Czech Republic).

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Prague, Czech Republic : Karolinum Press, [2023]

Summary:

This book on Jewish culture and literature focuses on the "quiet" decades of the nineteenth century, a scarcely written-about period of time in Bohemian Jewish history. Using a myriad of sources, including travelers' accounts, poems, essays, short stories, guides, and newspaper articles, the volume explores Jewish expression, Jewish-Czech relations, and the changing attitudes toward Jews between the 1820s and 1880s. It offers close readings of writers like Karel Havlíček Borovský, Ján Kollár, Siegfried Kapper, and Jan Neruda, as well as lesser-known authors and sources. Combining skillful sustained analysis, judicious argumentation, and elegant writing, the book is a truly enriching reading experience.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Credits

Foreword

1 Bohemia's Configurations

2 Borders Invite Contact: Prague's Jewish Town

3 Making Sense of a Ruin: The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague

4 To Include or Not to Include? Kollár's and Mácha's Conflicted Answers

5 Shock and Entertain: Diversions for Gentiles and/or Jews

6 Varieties of Bohemian Jewish Literature

7 The Imperial and the Local: Frankl vs. Kapper

8 New Debates about Jews: The 1840s

9 Languages of 1848

10 In Search of an Enemy: Jews According to Jan Neruda

11 New Times: Jewish, Czech, Jewish-Czech

12 Attempting a Conclusion

List of Illustrations

Bibliography

Index of Names and Subjects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9788024652030

802465203X

9788024653013

802465301X

OCLC:

1388493291