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The phenomenon of national identities, always a key issue in the
modern history of Bohemian Jewry, was particularly complex because
of the marginal differences that existed between the available
choices. Considerable overlap was evident in the programs of the
various national movements and it was possible to change one's
national identity or even to opt for more than one such identity
without necessarily experiencing any far-reaching consequences in
everyday life. Based on many hitherto unknown archival sources from
the Czech Republic, Israel and Austria, the author's research
reveals the inner dynamic of each of the national movements and
maps out the three most important constructions of national
identity within Bohemian Jewry - the German-Jewish, the
Czech-Jewish and the Zionist. This book provides a needed framework
for understanding the rich history of German- and Czech-Jewish
politics and culture in Bohemia and is a notable contribution to
the historiography of Bohemian, Czechoslovak and central European
Jewry.
The phenomenon of national identities, always a key issue in the
modern history of Bohemian Jewry, was particularly complex because
of the marginal differences that existed between the available
choices. Considerable overlap was evident in the programs of the
various national movements and it was possible to change one's
national identity or even to opt for more than one such identity
without necessarily experiencing any far-reaching consequences in
everyday life. Based on many hitherto unknown archival sources from
the Czech Republic, Israel and Austria, the author's research
reveals the inner dynamic of each of the national movements and
maps out the three most important constructions of national
identity within Bohemian Jewry - the German-Jewish, the
Czech-Jewish and the Zionist. This book provides a needed framework
for understanding the rich history of German- and Czech-Jewish
politics and culture in Bohemia and is a notable contribution to
the historiography of Bohemian, Czechoslovak and central European
Jewry.
Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at
least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the
Nazi regime experienced oppression and made decisions embedded
within families. Even after the war, sole survivors often described
their losses and rebuilt their lives with a distinct focus on
family. Yet this perspective is lacking in academic analyses.
 In this work, scholars from the United States, Israel, and
across Europe bring a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to
their study of the Holocaust and its aftermath from the family
perspective. Drawing on research from Belarus to Great Britain, and
examining both Jewish and Romani families, they demonstrate the
importance of recognizing how people continued to function within
family units—broadly defined—throughout the war and afterward.
This volume provides new, groundbreaking views of Jewish life in
various countries of the pro-Soviet bloc from the end of the Second
World War until the collapse of Communism in late 1989. The
authors, twelve leading historians and anthropologists from Europe,
Israel and the United States, look at the experience of Jews under
Communism by digging beyond formal state policy and instead
examining the ways in which Jews creatively
seized opportunities to develop and express their identities,
religious and secular, even under great duress. The volume shifts
the focus from Jews being objects of Communist state policy (and
from anti-Jewish prejudices in Communist societies) to the agency
of Jews and their creativity in Communist Europe after the
Holocaust. The examination of Jewish history from a transnational
vantage point challenges a dominant strand in history writing
today, by showing instead the wide variety of Jewish
experiences in law, traditions and institutional frameworks as
conceived from one Communist country to another and even within a
single country, such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East
Germany, and the Soviet Union. By focusing on networks across
east-central Europe and beyond and on the forms of identity open to
Jews in this important period, the volume begins a crucial
rethinking of social and cultural life under Communist regimes.
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The Jewish history and culture of the Bohemian countries have been
enjoying growing interest for around two decades. This places the
region's historically multi-ethnic character at the center of
attention. Against this background, it is all the more surprising
that no innovative synthesis of this research has yet been
available. For the first time, this book, written by an
international team of authors, is taking up the challenge of
telling and analyzing the Jewish experience in the Bohemian
countries as an integral and inseparable part of the development of
Central Europe from the 16th century to the present day. It is just
as much about contacts of the Jewish population with their
non-Jewish neighbors as it is about the view of the province, that
is, of the rural regions and communities away from the major urban
centers of Prague, Brno and Ostrava.
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