{"product_id":"prague-and-beyond-9780812253115","title":"Prague and Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\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 *\u003cbr\u003eThere 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405746184535,"sku":"9780812253115","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/prague-and-beyond-9780812253115","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}