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Languages of community : the Jewish experience in the Czech lands
The author examines the Jewish experience of the past two hundred years in Bohemia and Moravia (the present day Czech Republic), including history, myth, demograohics, biography, culture and politics.
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2000.
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Table of 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.