Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review[W]ell researched and meticulously cited . . . Recommended.
* Choice *
Lichtenstein is to be commended for writing what promises to be a definitive account of Jewish minority nationalism in interwar Czechoslovakia. . . The detailed geographic and ideological contextualization of the Czech case study will interest all scholars researching Jewish history in central and eastern Europe, as well as the history of nation-building in modern Europe.
* Slavic Review *
Lichtenstein's book makes a dynamic contribution to the recent historiography of the Jewish experience in twentieth century.
* Hungarian Historical Review *
Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia is a powerful study of interwar Zionism in Czechoslovakia that both complicates the picture and draws simple and useful parallels to contemporaneous developments in Europe
* Austrian Studies *
This richly detailed monograph, based on an array of archival and contemporary secondary sources, is a welcome addition to modern European, but especially modern Jewish, historiography.
* European History Quarterly *
Lichtenstein's book is of utmost importance for the understanding of Zionism as a national movement beyond the national project in Palestine.
* East Central Europe *
[A] well-documented and insightful monograph.
* American Historical Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of Place Names
Introduction: Making Jews at Home
1. The Jews of Czechoslovakia—A Mosaic of Cultures
2. Jewish Power and Powerlessness: Zionists, Czechs and the Paris Peace Conference
3. Mapping Jews: Social Science and the Making of Czechoslovak Jewry
4. Conquering Communities: Zionists, Cultural Renewal, and the State
5. A Stateless Nation's Territory: Zionists and the Jewish Schools
6. Making New Jews: Maccabi in Czechoslovakia
7. Promised Lands: Zionism and Communism in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Epilogue: "A Storm of Barbarism"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
