Languages of Community
Subtitle: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780520214101
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; Jewish studies; Judaism; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Intellectual life; Eastern Europe - Czech Republic & Slovakia; History - General History; Religion; Former Czechoslovakia; Jewish - General; Social Science / Jewish Studies; Czech Republic; 18th century; 19th century; Identity; Jews
First sentence: The origins of the Jewish communities of Bohemia and Moravia lie in a distant and ultimately irretrievable past.
Description: The author examines the Jewish experience of the past two hundred years in Bohemia and Moravia (the present day Czech Republic), including history, myth, demograohics, biography, culture and politics.