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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 311 pages) : mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520921160
  • 052092116X
  • 0585389829
  • 9780585389820
  • 1597347027
  • 9781597347020
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Languages of community.DDC classification:
  • 943.71/004924 21
LOC classification:
  • DS135.C95 K54 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-306) and index.

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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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