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

By: Kieval, Hillel J
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000Description: xi, 311 pages : map ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0520214102 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Jews -- Czech Republic -- Intellectual life -- 18th century | Jews -- Czech Republic -- Intellectual life -- 19th century | Jews -- Identity | Czech Republic -- Ethnic relationsDDC classification: 943.71/004924 LOC classification: DS135.C95 | K54 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-306) and index.
Contents:
Czech landscape, Habsburg crown: the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia to 1918 -- Caution's progress: enlightenment and tradition in Jewish Prague, 1780-1830 -- The social vision of Bohemian Jews: intellectuals and community in the 1840s -- Pursuing the Golem of Prague: Jewish culture and the invention of a tradition -- On myth, history, and national belonging in the nineteenth century -- Education and national conflict: Germans, Czechs, and Jews -- Jan Hus and the prophets: fashioning a Czech Judaism at the turn of the century -- Death and the nation: ritual murder as political discourse in the Czech lands -- Masaryk and Czech Jewry: the ambiguities of friendship.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West DS135 .C95 K54 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902319447

Czech landscape, Habsburg crown: the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia to 1918 -- Caution's progress: enlightenment and tradition in Jewish Prague, 1780-1830 -- The social vision of Bohemian Jews: intellectuals and community in the 1840s -- Pursuing the Golem of Prague: Jewish culture and the invention of a tradition -- On myth, history, and national belonging in the nineteenth century -- Education and national conflict: Germans, Czechs, and Jews -- Jan Hus and the prophets: fashioning a Czech Judaism at the turn of the century -- Death and the nation: ritual murder as political discourse in the Czech lands -- Masaryk and Czech Jewry: the ambiguities of friendship.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-306) and index.

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