Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book makes a crucial contribution to the question of minority loyalties in Central Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It points to a dramatic divergence of the constructions of loyalties between the majority and minority populations.
* Slovakia *
After WW I, former Hungarian territory became part of the newly established state of Czechoslovakia. Jews who had lived under Hungarian rule faced the problem of status and identity in a new state. . . The overall picture the author presents is skillfully balanced by effective individualized treatments of individuals and events. . . . Recommended.
* Choice *
Rebekah Klein-Pejšová's well-researched volume focuses on Slovakia between the two world wars, critically examining the position of Jews between the demise of Austria-Hungary and the proclamation of formally independent—but in reality, collaborationist—Slovakia.
* Holocaust and Genocide Studies *
Klein-Pejšová has contributed a succinct and sophisticated profile of an understudied community, one that can help us understand the impossible dynamic faced by all Jews who lived among multiple nationalities with competing national claims.
* Slavic Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Note on Place-Names and List of Place-Name Equivalents
Introduction: Seek the "Right Path": The Jews of Slovakia in Remapped Post-World War One East Central Europe
1. From Hungary to Czechoslovakia: Jewish Transition to the Consolidating Czechoslovak State
2. Nationality is an Internal Conviction: Jewish Nationality and Czechoslovak Statebuilding
3. Contested Loyalty: Proving Slovak Jewish Loyalty to Czechoslovakia
4. Between the Nationalities: Statist Slovak Jews, Separatist Slovaks, and the Revisionist Threat
Conclusion: Mapping Jewish Loyalties
Notes
Bibliography
Index
