| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 311 pages) : map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-306) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jews -- Czech Republic -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Jews. |
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Czech Republic. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Jews -- Czech Republic -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Jews -- Identity.
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Jews -- Identity. |
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Czech Republic -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kieval, Hillel J. Languages of community. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000 0520214102 (DLC) 99053814 (OCoLC)42717206 |
| ISBN |
9780520921160 (electronic book) |
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052092116X (electronic book) |
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0585389829 (electronic book) |
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9780585389820 (electronic book) |
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1597347027 |
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9781597347020 |
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0520214102 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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