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ONLINE

[Praha] : Karolinum, 2023

1 online zdroj (358 stran)

ISBN 978-80-246-5301-3 (online ; pdf)

ISBN 978-80-246-5288-7 (print)

This book on Jewish culture and literature focuses on the “quiet” decades of the nineteenth century, a scarcely written-about period of time in Bohemian Jewish history. Using a myriad of sources, including travelers’ accounts, poems, essays, short stories, guides, and newspaper articles, the volume explores Jewish expression, Jewish-Czech relations, and the changing attitudes toward Jews between the 1820s and 1880s. It offers close readings of writers like Karel Havlíček Borovský, Ján Kollár, Siegfried Kapper, and Jan Neruda, as well as lesser-known authors and sources. Combining skillful sustained analysis, judicious argumentation, and elegant writing, the book is a truly enriching reading experience..

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CREDITS 7 // FOREWORD 9 // 1 Bohemias Configurations 15 // 2 Borders Invite Contact: Prague’s Jewish Town 37 // 3 Making Sense of a Ruin: The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague 67 // 4 To Include or Not to Include? Kollars and Machas // Conflicted Answers 89 // 5 Shock and Entertain: Diversions for Gentiles and/or Jews 105 // 6 Varieties of Bohemian Jewish Literature 131 // 7 The Imperial and the Local: Frankl vs. Kapper 165 // 8 New Debates about Jews: The 1840s 187 // 9 Languages of 1848 211 // 10 In Search of an Enemy: Jews According to Jan Neruda 233 // 11 New Times: Jewish, Czech, Jewish-Czech 257 // 12 Attempting a Conclusion 293 // LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 303 // BIBLIOGRAPHY 305 // INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS 343