Bohemia's Jews and Their Nineteenth Century: Texts, Contexts, Reassessments
by Jindrich Toman
Karolinum Press, 2023
Paper: 978-80-246-5288-7 | eISBN: 978-80-246-5203-0 (ePub) | eISBN: 978-80-246-5204-7 (Kindle) | eISBN: 978-80-246-5301-3 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification DS135.C95T658 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.8924043710903
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Bohemian Jewish culture and literature during the underexamined 1820s to 1880s.
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 Havlíćek 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.
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 Havlíćek 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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