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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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kateřina ČapkovÁ and Hillel J. Kieval
Chapter 1. The Jews of the Bohemian Lands in Early Modern Times
Verena Kasper-Marienberg and Joshua Teplitsky
Chapter 2. Absolutism and Control: Jews in the Bohemian Lands in the Eighteenth Century
Michael L. Miller
Chapter 3. Unequal Mobility: Jews, State, and Society in an Era of Contradictions, 1790-1860
Hillel J. Kieval
Chapter 4. Contested Equality: Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 1861-1917
Michal Frankl, Martina Niedhammer, and Ines Koeltzsch
Chapter 5. Becoming Czechoslovaks: Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 1917-38
Ines Koeltzsch, Michal Frankl, and Martina Niedhammer
Chapter 6. The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia
Benjamin Frommer
Chapter 7. Periphery and Center: Jews in the Bohemian Lands from 1945 to the Present
Kateřina ČapkovÁ
Appendix. The Demographic Development of Jewish Settlement in Selected Communities in the Bohemian Lands
Helena KlÍmovÁ and Lenka MatuŠÍkovÁ
Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
