Prague and Beyond: Jews in the Bohemian Lands

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2021

Prague and Beyond

Jews in the Bohemian Lands

Edited by: Kateřina Čapková and Hillel J. Kieval

In the series Jewish Culture and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299595

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About this book

Presenting a new and accessible history of the Jews of what is now the Czech Republic, Prague and Beyond revises conventional understandings of Central Europe's Jewish past and present and fully captures the diversity and multivalence of life in the Bohemian Lands.

Author / Editor information

Kateřina Capkova is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, and teaches at New York University, Prague. Hillel J. Kieval is Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis.

Reviews

"There is simply no other integral narrative history of the Jews in the 'Bohemian lands.' Prague and Beyond will fill lacunae on reading lists in European and Jewish history, history of the Holocaust, and Central European political science."—Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University

"Prague and Beyond is an impressive work, offering a well-conceived and well-executed overview of the long history of Jews in the Czech lands. The book should be greeted with enthusiasm not only by Czech historians and historians of modern European Jewry, but by European historians more generally and by other readers with an interest in the lost world of pre-Holocaust Europe. All will find something to learn here."—David Rechter, University of Oxford

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowl edgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Contributors Kateřina Č Čapková and Hillel Kieval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. The Jews of the Bohemian Lands in Early Modern Times Verena Marienberg and Joshua Teplitsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Chapter 2. Absolutism and Control: Jews in the Bohemian Lands in the Eigh teenth Century Michael Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter 3. Unequal Mobility: Jews, State, and Society in an Era of Contradictions, 1790–1860 Hillel Kieval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Chapter 4. Contested Equality: Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 1861–1917 Michal Frankl, Martina Niedhammer and Ines Koeltzsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Chapter 5. Becoming Czechoslovaks: Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 1917–38 Ines Koeltzsch, Michal Frankl and Martina Niedhammer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Chapter 6. The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia Benjamin Frommer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Chapter 7. Periphery and Center: Jews in the Bohemian Lands from 1945 to the Pre sent Kateřina Čapková Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Appendix. The Demographic Development of Jewish Settlement in Selected Communities in the Bohemian Lands Helena Klímová and Lenka Matušíková Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 384
Illustrations
- Other: 14 map2s, 24 tables, 28 halftones
Keywords: Jews in Eastern Europe; Jews and Prague; Jews and Czechoslovakia; Franz Kafka; Theresienstadt; Masaryk and Jews; Bohemia; Slovakia; Moravia; Jewish History; Bohemian Lands; Hapsburg Empire

eBook

Published: August 6, 2021
ISBN: 9780812299595