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Languages of community : the Jewish experience in the Czech lands / / Hillel J. Kieval



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Autore: Kieval Hillel J Visualizza persona
Titolo: Languages of community : the Jewish experience in the Czech lands / / Hillel J. Kieval Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2000
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
Disciplina: 943.71/004924
Soggetto topico: Jews - Czech Republic - Intellectual life - 18th century
Jews - Czech Republic - Intellectual life - 19th century
Jews - Identity
Soggetto geografico: Czech Republic Ethnic relations
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-306) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Map -- Introduction: Language, Community, and Experience -- 1. Czech Landscape, Habsburg Crown: The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia to 1918 -- 2. Caution's Progress: Enlightenment and Tradition in Jewish Prague, 1780 -1830 -- 3. The Social Vision of Bohemian Jews: Intellectuals and Community in the 1840's -- 4. Pursuing the Golem of Prague: Jewish Culture and the Invention of a Tradition -- 5. On Myth, History, and National Belonging in the Nineteenth Century -- 6. Education and National Conflict: Germans, Czechs, and Jews -- 7. Jan Hus and the Prophets: Fashioning a Czech Judaism at the Turn of the Century -- 8. Death and the Nation: Ritual Murder as Political Discourse in the Czech Lands -- 9. Masaryk and Czech Jewry: The Ambiguities of Friendship -- Epilogue: A Sitting Room in Prague -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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. From that time forward, new relationships with Gentile society and with the culture of the state blurred the traditional outlines of community and individual identity. Kieval navigates skillfully among histories and myths as well as demography, biography, culture, and politics, illuminating the maze of allegiances and alliances that have molded the Jewish experience during these 200 years.
Titolo autorizzato: Languages of community  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-92116-X
1-59734-702-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817147503321
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