LEADER 04845oam 22007214a 450 001 9910809463603321 005 20211222195647.0 010 $a0-8014-6209-6 010 $a0-8014-6191-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801461910 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036229 035 $a(OCoLC)732956584 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10467981 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000538310 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11364957 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538310 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10558625 035 $a(PQKB)10095045 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138102 035 $a(DE-B1597)481714 035 $a(OCoLC)987933247 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801461910 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138102 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10467981 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL768216 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_68322 035 $a(dli)HEB32183 035 $a(MiU)MIU01200000000000000000002 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036229 100 $a20070809d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKidnapped Souls$eNational Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900?1948 /$fTara Zahra 210 1$cCornell University Press,$d2008.$aIthaca : 215 $a1 online resource (299 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-7760-3 311 $a0-8014-4628-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"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. 330 $aThroughout 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. 606 $aGermans$zCzech Republic$zBohemia$xPolitics and government$y20th century 606 $aNationalism$zCzech Republic$zBohemia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aChildren$xGovernment policy$zCzech Republic$zBohemia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aChildren and politics$zCzech Republic$zBohemia$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aBohemia (Czech Republic)$xPolitics and government$y20th century 607 $aBohemia (Czech Republic)$xEthnic relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGermans$xPolitics and government 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory 615 0$aChildren$xGovernment policy$xHistory 615 0$aChildren and politics$xHistory 676 $a305.23094371/0904 700 $aZahra$b Tara$0512200 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809463603321 996 $aKidnapped souls$9764739 997 $aUNINA