04767oam 22006974a 450 991045685990332120211222195647.00-8014-6209-60-8014-6191-X10.7591/9780801461910(CKB)2550000000036229(OCoLC)732956584(CaPaEBR)ebrary10467981(SSID)ssj0000538310(PQKBManifestationID)11364957(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538310(PQKBWorkID)10558625(PQKB)10095045(MiAaPQ)EBC3138102(DE-B1597)481714(OCoLC)987933247(DE-B1597)9780801461910(Au-PeEL)EBL3138102(CaPaEBR)ebr10467981(CaONFJC)MIL768216(MdBmJHUP)musev2_68322(EXLCZ)99255000000003622920070809d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrKidnapped SoulsNational Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948 /Tara ZahraCornell University Press,2008.Ithaca :1 online resource (299 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8014-7760-3 0-8014-4628-7 Includes bibliographical references and index."Czech schools for Czech children!" -- Teachers, orphans, and social workers -- Warfare, welfare, and the end of empire -- Reclaiming children for the nation -- Freudian nationalists and Heimat activists -- Borderland children and Volkstumsarbeit under Nazi rule -- Stay-at-home nationalism -- Reich-loyal Czech nationalism.Throughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for rural and working-class parents in the Czech-German borderlands to ensure that their children were bilingual by sending them to live with families who spoke the "other" language. As nationalism became a more potent force in Central Europe, however, such practices troubled pro-German and pro-Czech activists, who feared that the children born to their nation could literally be "lost" or "kidnapped" from the national community through such experiences and, more generally, by parents who were either flexible about national belonging or altogether indifferent to it.Highlighting this indifference to nationalism-and concerns about such apathy among nationalists-Kidnapped Souls offers a surprising new perspective on Central European politics and society in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on Austrian, Czech, and German archives, Tara Zahra shows how nationalists in the Bohemian Lands worked to forge political cultures in which children belonged more rightfully to the national collective than to their parents. Through their educational and social activism to fix the boundaries of nation and family, Zahra finds, Czech and German nationalists reveal the set of beliefs they shared about children, family, democracy, minority rights, and the relationship between the individual and the collective. Zahra shows that by 1939 a vigorous tradition of Czech-German nationalist competition over children had created cultures that would shape the policies of the Nazi occupation and the Czech response to it.The book's concluding chapter weighs the prehistory and consequences of the postwar expulsion of German families from the Bohemian Lands. Kidnapped Souls is a significant contribution to our understanding of the genealogy of modern nationalism in Central Europe and a groundbreaking exploration of the ways in which children have been the objects of political contestation when national communities have sought to shape, or to reshape, their futures.GermansCzech RepublicBohemiaPolitics and government20th centuryNationalismCzech RepublicBohemiaHistory20th centuryChildrenGovernment policyCzech RepublicBohemiaHistory20th centuryChildren and politicsCzech RepublicBohemiaHistory20th centuryBohemia (Czech Republic)Politics and government20th centuryBohemia (Czech Republic)Ethnic relationsElectronic books. GermansPolitics and governmentNationalismHistoryChildrenGovernment policyHistoryChildren and politicsHistory305.23094371/0904Zahra Tara512200MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910456859903321Kidnapped souls764739UNINA