Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands
Hillel Kieval
Abstract
This book 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, the book states, 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 tr ... More
Keywords: Jewish experience, Moravia, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Jews, group identity, cultural loyalty, community, absolutism, Czech lands
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2000 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520214101 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520214101.001.0001 |
