Languages of Community

by Kieval, Hillel J.

• ISBN13: 9780520214101
• ISBN10: 0520214102
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Languages of Community explores various dimensions of the Jewish historical experience in what is now the Czech republic, from enlightened absolutism (the reign of Joseph II) to the 20th century.

Author Biography

Hillel J. Kieval is Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction Language, Community, and Experience	p. 1
The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia to 1918	p. 10
Enlightenment and Tradition in Jewish Prague, 1780-1830	p. 37
Intellectuals and Community in the 1840s	p. 65
Jewish Culture and the Invention of a Tradition	p. 95
On Myth, History, and National Belonging in the Nineteenth Century	p. 114
Germans, Czechs, and Jews	p. 135
Fashioning a Czech Judaism at the Turn of the Century	p. 159
Ritual Murder as Political Discourse in the Czech Lands	p. 181
The Ambiguities of Friendship	p. 198
Epilogue: A Sitting Room in Prague	p. 217
Appendix: Panorama Des Universums, Vol. 8 [1841]	p. 231
Notes	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 285
Index	p. 307
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