Languages of community : the Jewish experience in the Czech lands / Hillel J. Kieval.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 311 pages) : mapContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520921160
- 052092116X
- 0585389829
- 9780585389820
- 1597347027
- 9781597347020
- Jews -- Czech Republic -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
- Jews -- Czech Republic -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Jews -- Identity
- Czech Republic -- Ethnic relations
- Jews -- Czech Republic -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
- HISTORY
- RELIGION -- Judaism -- General
- Ethnic relations
- Jews -- Identity
- Jews -- Intellectual life
- Czech Republic
- Joden
- Tsjechi�e
- Bohemen
- Moravi�e
- 1700-1899
- 943.71/004924 21
- DS135.C95 K54 2000eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-306) and index.
Print version record.
This volume examines the contours and distinctive features of Jewish experience in Bohemia and Moravia. The book presents the histories and myths as well as demography, biography, culture and politics which show the allegiances and alliances that have molded this experience over 200 years.
Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Map; Introduction; 1 Czech Landscape, Habsburg Crown; 2 Caution's Progress: Enlightenment and Tradition; 3 The Social Vision of Bohemian Jews; 4 Pursuing the Golem of Prague; 5 On Myth, History, and National Belonging in the Nineteenth Century; 6 Education and National Conflict; 7 Jan Hus and the Prophets; 8 Death and the Nation; 9 Masaryk and Czech Jewry; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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