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Languages of Community

Languages of Community The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands

Hardback (15 Dec 2000)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780520214101
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 943.71004924
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 311
Weight: 680g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 28mm