Prague and Beyond : Jews in the Bohemian Lands / ed. by Kateřina Čapková, Hillel J. Kieval.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frankl, Michal, Contributor.

Frommer, Benjamin, Contributor.

Kieval, Hillel J., Editor.

Kieval, Hillel, Contributor.

Klímová, Helena, Contributor.

Koeltzsch, Ines, Contributor.

Marienberg, Verena, Contributor.

Matušíková, Lenka, Contributor.

Miller, Michael, Contributor.

Niedhammer, Martina, Contributor.

Teplitsky, Joshua, Contributor.

Čapková, Kateřina Č, Contributor.

Čapková, Kateřina, Contributor.

Čapková, Kateřina, Editor.

Series:

Jewish Culture and Contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Jews.

Jews--Czech Republic--Bohemia--Social conditions--History.

Bohemia (Czech Republic)--Ethnic relations--History.

Bohemia (Czech Republic).

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.) : 14 map2s, 24 tables, 28 halftones

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Presenting a new and accessible history of the Jews of what is now the Czech Republic, Prague and Beyond revises conventional understandings of Central Europe's Jewish past and present and fully captures the diversity and multivalence of life in the Bohemian Lands.

Contents:

Chapter 1. The Jews of the Bohemian lands in early modern times / Verena Kasper-Marienberg and Joshua Teplitsky

Chapter 2. Absolutism and control : Jews in the Bohemian lands in the eighteenth century / Michael L. Miller

Chapter 3. Unequal mobility : Jews, state, and society in an era of contradictions, 1790-1860 / Hillel J. Kieval

Chapter 4. Contested equality : Jews in the Bohemian lands, 1861-1917 / Michal Frankl, Martina Niedhammer, and Ines Koeltzsch

Chapter 5. Becoming Czechoslovaks : Jews in the Bohemian lands, 1917-38 / Ines Koeltzsch, Michal Frankl, and Martina Niedhammer

Chapter 6. The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia / Benjamin Frommer

Chapter 7. Periphery and center : Jews in the Bohemian lands from 1945 to the present / Kateřina Čapková

Appendix : the demographic development of Jewish settlement in selected communities in the Bohemian lands / Helena Klímová and Lenka Matušíková.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021)

ISBN:

9780812299595

0812299590

OCLC:

1261364603