Languages of community : the Jewish experience in the Czech lands /
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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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2000
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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.
