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Prague and Beyond - Jews in the Bohemian Lands (Hardcover)
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Prague and Beyond - Jews in the Bohemian Lands (Hardcover)
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Prague's magnificent synagogues and Old Jewish Cemetery attract
millions of visitors each year, and travelers who venture beyond
the capital find physical evidence of once vibrant Jewish
communities in towns and villages throughout today's Czech
Republic. For those seeking to learn more about the people who once
lived and died at those sites, however, there has until now been no
comprehensive account in English of the region's Jews. Prague and
Beyond presents a new and accessible history of the Jews of the
Bohemian Lands written by an international team of scholars. It
offers a multifaceted account of the Jewish people in a region that
has been, over the centuries, a part of the Holy Roman Empire and
the Habsburg Monarchy, was constituted as the democratic
Czechoslovakia in the years following the First World War, became
the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and later a postwar
Communist state, and is today's Czech Republic. This ever-changing
landscape provides the backdrop for a historical reinterpretation
that emphasizes the rootedness of Jews in the Bohemian Lands, the
intricate variety of their social, economic, and cultural
relationships, their negotiations with state power, the connections
that existed among Jewish communities, and the close, if often
conflictual, ties between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors.
Prague and Beyond is written in a narrative style with a focus on
several unifying themes across the periods. These include migration
and mobility; the shape of social networks; religious life and
education; civic rights, citizenship, and Jewish autonomy; gender
and the family; popular culture; and memory and commemorative
practices. Collectively these perspectives work to revise
conventional understandings of Central Europe's Jewish past and
present, and more fully capture the diversity and multivalence of
life in the Bohemian Lands.
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