"An engaging and highly nuanced portrait of one of European Jewry's most interesting but least known communities. . . . Kieval has a masterful command of a century and a half of Czech Jewish history, which he brings to bear in a sophisticated manner. "--David Sorkin, author of "Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment" "Uniformly erudite, yet readable and lively. . . . The book will be widely read not only by historians of modern Jewry but by all those interested in the tortured and difficult path of this part of ...
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"An engaging and highly nuanced portrait of one of European Jewry's most interesting but least known communities. . . . Kieval has a masterful command of a century and a half of Czech Jewish history, which he brings to bear in a sophisticated manner. "--David Sorkin, author of "Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment" "Uniformly erudite, yet readable and lively. . . . The book will be widely read not only by historians of modern Jewry but by all those interested in the tortured and difficult path of this part of Europe towards the creation of a plural and civil society."--Antony Polonsky, editor of "Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry"
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Textual map. Dustwrapper. 24x15cm, xi, 311 pp. Contents: Introduction: Language, Community, & Experience; Czech Landscape, Habsburg Crown: The Jews of Bohemia & Moravia to 1918; Caution's Progress: Enlightenment & Tradition in Jewish Prague, 1780-1830; The Social Vision of Bohemian Jews: Intellectuals & Community in the I840s; Pursuing the Golem of Prague: Jewish Culture & the Invention of a Tradition; On Myth, History, and National Belonging in the 19th Century; Education & National Conflict: Germans, Czechs, & Jews; Jan Hus & the Prophets: Fashioning a Czech Judaism at the Turn of the Century; Death & the Nation: Ritual Murder as Political Discourse in the Czech Lands; Masaryk & Czech Jewry: The Ambiguities of Friendship; Epilogue: A Sitting Room in Prague ["With a keen eye for revealing details, Hillel J. Kieval examines the contours & distinctive features of Jewish experience in the lands of Bohemia & Moravia (the present-day Czech Republic), from the late 18th to the late 20th century. In the Czech lands, Kieval writes, Jews have felt the need constantly to define & articulate the nature of group identity, cultural loyalty, memory, & social cohesiveness, & the period of "modernizing" absolutism, which began in 1780, brought changes of enormous significance. From that time forward, new relationships with Gentile society & with the culture of the state blurred the traditional outlines of community & individual identity. Kieval navigates skillfully among histories & myths as well as demography, biography, culture, & politics, illuminating the maze of allegiances & alliance.., ."-Publisher's description]
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