Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe 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 *
Prague and Beyond 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.'
Prague and Beyond 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 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
