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With a keen eye for revealing details, Hillel J. Kieval examines the contours and distinctive features of Jewish experience in the lands of Bohemia and Moravia (the present-day Czech Republic), from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. In the Czech lands, Kieval writes, Jews have felt the need constantly to define and articulate the nature of group identity, cultural loyalty, memory, and social cohesiveness, and the period of "modernizing" absolutism, which began in 1780, brought changes of enormous significance. From that time forward, new relationships with Gentile society and with the culture of the state blurred the traditional outlines of community and individual identity. Kieval navigates skillfully among histories and myths as well as demography, biography, culture, and politics, illuminating the maze of allegiances and alliances that have molded the Jewish experience during these 200 years.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Languages of Community
• Author: Hillel J. Kieval
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 322
• EAN: 9780520214101
• ISBN: 0520214102
• ID: 04088535
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 680 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. December 2000

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