Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech LandsUniversity of California Press, 26.12.2000 - 311 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
Enlightenment and Tradition | 37 |
Jewish Culture | 95 |
On Myth History and National Belonging | 114 |
Germans Czechs and Jews | 135 |
Fashioning a Czech Judaism | 159 |
Ritual Murder as Political Discourse | 181 |
The Ambiguities of Friendship | 198 |
A Sitting Room in Prague | 217 |
Appendix | 231 |
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