Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 311 p)
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map
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520214102
Content:
With a keen eye for revealing details, Hillel J. Kieval examines the contours and distinctive features of Jewish experience in the lands of Bohemia and Moravia (the present-day Czech Republic), from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. In the Czech lands, Kieval writes, Jews have felt the need constantly to define and articulate the nature of group identity, cultural loyalty, memory, and social cohesiveness, and the period of "modernizing" absolutism, which began in 1780, brought changes of enormous significance
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-306) and index
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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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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520214101
Additional Edition:
Print version Languages of Community : The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands
Language:
English
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