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acculturation
antisemitism
ashkenazim
assimilation
Author_Hillel J. Kieval
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bohemia
bohemian jewish
bohemian jewry
bohmen
bohmischen
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central europe
community
culture
czech
czech republic
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folk tale
folklore
gentiles
group identity
history
jan hus
jewish
jewish experience
jewish life
jews
judaica
judaism
kahal
language
linguistics
masaryk
memory
migration
moravia
myth
nationalism
nonfiction
place
prague
religion
religious pluralism
ritual
ritual murder
tradition
yiddish
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- ISBN 9780520214101
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Dec 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Hillel J. Kieval is Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of The Making of Czech Jewry (1988) and Blood Inscriptions, a forthcoming study of the modern ritual murder trial.
