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.
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