- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Note on Place Names
- Note on Transliteration
-
Review Essays Some Remarks on Leszek Hońdo’s Study of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Kraków - The Last Controversy over Ritual Murder? The Debate over the Paintings in Sandomierz Cathedral
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Book Reviews Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands - Haḥevrah hayehudit bemamlekhet polin-lita
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- Żydzi Lubelszczyzny 1914‒1918
- Malarstwo i rzeźba Żydów polskich w XIXi XXwieku
- Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky
- Utwory nieznane. Ze zbiorów Tomasza Niewodniczańskiego w Bitburgu: Wiersze, Kabaret, Artykuły, Listy
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- Studia dziejów i kultury Żydów w Polsce po 1945 roku
- Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology
- Błogosławiony Bóg Izraela
- Correspondence
- Exchange between Dina Porat and Roni Stauber, and Alina Cała
- Obituaries
- Stanislaus A. Blejwas 1941‒2001
- Select Bibliography of Blejwas’s Works
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands
Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands
- Chapter:
- (p.505) Book Reviews Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands
- Source:
- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 16
- Author(s):
Hillel J. Kieval
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter explores Hillel J. Kieval's book, Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands. Kieval's Languages of Community demonstrates that the development of the community of Czech Jews in the period before the First World War was fraught with intense struggles against emerging Czech nationalism. In these interlinked essays, Kieval's primary emphasis is on the way in which the conflicts over language shaped the identities of the Czech Jews—a persuasive emphasis given the centrality of language in the definition of nationalisms in the Habsburg Empire. The fact that German was the primary spoken and written language of urban Jews was a particular irritant to Czech nationalists, who in the nineteenth century were seeking to turn Czech into the language of a new national culture. Like other Jews in the multi-ethnic empire, Czech Jews were caught between the German culture of the regime and the culture of their indigenous environment. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, a Czech Jewish movement emerged which favoured the adoption of the Czech language and culture. But Kieval argues that this movement had only modest success, which was limited primarily to the abolition of German Jewish schools in the villages.
Keywords: Hillel J. Kieval, Czech Jews, Czech nationalism, Czech Jewish identity, Habsburg Empire, German language, Czech nationalists, Czech language, Czech culture, Czech Jewish movement
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- Title Pages
- The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Note on Place Names
- Note on Transliteration
-
Review Essays Some Remarks on Leszek Hońdo’s Study of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Kraków - The Last Controversy over Ritual Murder? The Debate over the Paintings in Sandomierz Cathedral
- The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland of 1967‒1968: Documents
-
Book Reviews Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands - Haḥevrah hayehudit bemamlekhet polin-lita
- A Missionary for History: Essays in Honor of Simon Dubnow
- From Nationalism to Universalism: Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky and the Ukrainian Question
- Żydzi Lubelszczyzny 1914‒1918
- Malarstwo i rzeźba Żydów polskich w XIXi XXwieku
- Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky
- Utwory nieznane. Ze zbiorów Tomasza Niewodniczańskiego w Bitburgu: Wiersze, Kabaret, Artykuły, Listy
- Szlagiery starej Warszawy: Śpiewnik andrusowski
- Party na Nalewkach
- Sąsiedzi: Historia zagłady żydowskiego miasteczka
- Burning Questions a Film By
- Collaboration during the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941‒44
- Studia dziejów i kultury Żydów w Polsce po 1945 roku
- Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology
- Błogosławiony Bóg Izraela
- Correspondence
- Exchange between Dina Porat and Roni Stauber, and Alina Cała
- Obituaries
- Stanislaus A. Blejwas 1941‒2001
- Select Bibliography of Blejwas’s Works
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index