History of the Jews in the Bohemian lands / / by Martin Wein.

• Author: Wein, Martin Joachim, 1973-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill.; c2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Central European Histories 61.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands , Martin Wein traces the interaction of Czechs and Jews, but also of Christian German-speakers, Slovaks, and other groups in the Bohemian lands and in Czechoslovakia throughout the first half of the twentieth century. This period saw accelerated nation-building and nation-cleansing in the context of hegemony exercised by a changing cast of great powers, namely Austria-Hungary, France, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union. The author examines Christian-Jewish and inner-Jewish relations in various periods and provinces, including in Subcarpathian Ruthenia, emphasizing interreligious alliances of Jews with Protestants, such as T. G. Masaryk, and political parties, for example a number of Social Democratic ones. The writings of Prague’s Czech-German-Jewish founders of theories of nationalism, Hans Kohn, Karl W. Deutsch, and Ernest Gellner, help to interpret this history.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Great Fin-de-Siècle Crisis, 1897–1900 -- 3 Fallout: The Impact of the Crisis, 1900–1914 -- 4 World War i and the Founding of Czechoslovakia, 1914–1920 -- 5 The First Republic and the Minorities, 1920–1938 -- 6 Jewish Religion in Czechoslovakia, 1920–1938 -- 7 Jewish Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1920–1938 -- 8 The Munich Agreement and the Second Republic, 1938–1939 -- 9 Nazi Germany’s “Protectorate,” 1939–1945 -- 10 World War ii and the Czechoslovak Exile, 1938–1945 -- 11 The Reconstitution of Czechoslovakia, the Third Republic, and the Rise of Communism, 1945–1948 -- 12 Czechoslovakia’s Jewish Survivor Community, 1945–1948 -- 13 Conclusions -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.