{"product_id":"prague-and-beyond-jews-in-the-bohemian-lands-hardback-9780812253115","title":"Prague and Beyond; Jews in the Bohemian Lands (Hardback) 9780812253115","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePrague and Beyond\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eJews in the Bohemian Lands\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKateřina Čapková (Edited by), Hillel J. Kieval (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812253115\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 August 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages, 14 map2s, 24 tables, 28 halftones\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 3.1 cm, 0.81 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The history of Jewish communities in the Czech lands of Bohemia and Moravia have long been sidelined by scholars given the larger populations in Polish and Russian regions. The work under review corrects this...Čapková and Kieval have done a tremendous service in opening up the unique history and complexity of Jewish life in this neglected region.\" (Choice) \"\u003ci\u003ePrague and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive work, offering a well-conceived and well-executed overview of the long history of Jews in the Czech lands. The book should be greeted with enthusiasm not only by Czech historians and historians of modern European Jewry, but by European historians more generally and by other readers with an interest in the lost world of pre-Holocaust Europe. All will find something to learn here.\" (David Rechter, University of Oxford) \"There is simply no other integral narrative history of the Jews in the 'Bohemian lands.' \u003ci\u003ePrague and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e will fill lacunae on reading lists in European and Jewish history, history of the Holocaust, and Central European political science.\" (Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrague'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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePrague and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePrague and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Kateřina ČapkovÁ and Hillel J. Kieval\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Jews of the Bohemian Lands in Early Modern Times\u003cbr\u003e Verena Kasper-Marienberg and Joshua Teplitsky\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Absolutism and Control: Jews in the Bohemian Lands in the Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Michael L. Miller\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Unequal Mobility: Jews, State, and Society in an Era of Contradictions, 1790-1860\u003cbr\u003e Hillel J. Kieval\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Contested Equality: Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 1861-1917\u003cbr\u003e Michal Frankl, Martina Niedhammer, and Ines Koeltzsch\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Becoming Czechoslovaks: Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 1917-38\u003cbr\u003e Ines Koeltzsch, Michal Frankl, and Martina Niedhammer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia\u003cbr\u003e Benjamin Frommer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Periphery and Center: Jews in the Bohemian Lands from 1945 to the Present\u003cbr\u003e Kateřina ČapkovÁ\u003cbr\u003e Appendix. The Demographic Development of Jewish Settlement in Selected Communities in the Bohemian Lands\u003cbr\u003e Helena KlÍmovÁ and Lenka MatuŠÍkovÁ\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559245148440,"sku":"9780812253115","price":63.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/prague-and-beyond-jews-in-the-bohemian-lands-hardback-9780812253115","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}