Arnošt Frischer And The Jewish Politics Of Early 20th Century Europe

Author : Jan Lánícek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472585912

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Arnošt Frischer and the Jewish Politics of Early 20th-Century Europe by Jan Lánícek Pdf

In this analysis of the life of Arnošt Frischer, an influential Jewish nationalist activist, Jan Lánícek reflects upon how the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia dealt with the challenges that arose from their volatile relationship with the state authorities in the first half of the 20th century. The Jews in the Bohemian Lands experienced several political regimes in the period from 1918 to the late 1940s: the Habsburg Empire, the first democratic Czechoslovak republic, the post-Munich authoritarian Czecho-Slovak republic, the Nazi regime, renewed Czechoslovak democracy and the Communist regime. Frischer's involvement in local and central politics affords us invaluable insights into the relations and negotiations between the Jewish activists and these diverse political authorities in the Bohemian Lands. Vital coverage is also given to the relatively under-researched subject of the Jewish responses to the Nazi persecution and the attempts of the exiled Jewish leadership to alleviate the plight of the Jews in occupied Europe. The case study of Frischer and Czechoslovakia provides an important paradigm for understanding modern Jewish politics in Europe in the first half of the 20th century, making this a book of great significance to all students and scholars interested in Jewish history and Modern European history.

Author : Jan Láníček
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1474296130

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Arnošt Frischer and the Jewish Politics of Early 20th-century Europe by Jan Láníček Pdf

"In this analysis of the life of Arnošt Frischer, an influential Jewish nationalist activist, Jan Láníček, reflects upon how the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia dealt with the challenges that arose from their volatile relationship with the state authorities in the first half of the 20th century. The Jews in the Bohemian Lands experienced several political regimes in the period from 1918 to the late 1940s: the Habsburg Empire, the first democratic Czechoslovak republic, the post-Munich authoritarian Czecho-Slovak republic, the Nazi regime, renewed Czechoslovak democracy and the Communist regime. Frischer's involvement in local and central politics affords us invaluable insights into the relations and negotiations between the Jewish activists and these diverse political authorities in the Bohemian Lands. Vital coverage is also given to the relatively under-researched subject of the Jewish responses to the Nazi persecution and the attempts of the exiled Jewish leadership to alleviate the plight of the Jews in occupied Europe. The case study of Frischer and Czechoslovakia provides an important paradigm for understanding modern Jewish politics in Europe in the first half of the 20th century, making this a book of great significance to all students and scholars interested in Jewish history and Modern European history."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Kateřina Čapková,Hillel J. Kieval
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812299595

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Prague and Beyond by Kateřina Čapková,Hillel J. Kieval Pdf

Prague's magnificent synagogues and Old Jewish Cemetery attract millions of visitors each year, and travelers who venture beyond the capital find physical evidence of once vibrant Jewish communities in towns and villages throughout today's Czech Republic. For those seeking to learn more about the people who once lived and died at those sites, however, there has until now been no comprehensive account in English of the region's Jews. Prague and Beyond presents a new and accessible history of the Jews of the Bohemian Lands written by an international team of scholars. It offers a multifaceted account of the Jewish people in a region that has been, over the centuries, a part of the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy, was constituted as the democratic Czechoslovakia in the years following the First World War, became the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and later a postwar Communist state, and is today's Czech Republic. This ever-changing landscape provides the backdrop for a historical reinterpretation that emphasizes the rootedness of Jews in the Bohemian Lands, the intricate variety of their social, economic, and cultural relationships, their negotiations with state power, the connections that existed among Jewish communities, and the close, if often conflictual, ties between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors. Prague and Beyond is written in a narrative style with a focus on several unifying themes across the periods. These include migration and mobility; the shape of social networks; religious life and education; civic rights, citizenship, and Jewish autonomy; gender and the family; popular culture; and memory and commemorative practices. Collectively these perspectives work to revise conventional understandings of Central Europe's Jewish past and present, and more fully capture the diversity and multivalence of life in the Bohemian Lands.

Author : Jan Lánícek,Jan Lambertz
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814349243

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More than Parcels by Jan Lánícek,Jan Lambertz Pdf

Essays mapping the history of relief parcels sent to Jewish prisoners during World War II.

Author : Hana Kubátová,Jan Láníček
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004362444

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The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938-89 by Hana Kubátová,Jan Láníček Pdf

This volume analyses the image of ‘the Jew’ as it developed and transformed in both Czech and Slovak society under the nondemocratic regimes of the twentieth century. It is the first serious attempt to offer a comparative analysis of anti-Jewish prejudices in the Czech and Slovak mindset between 1938 and 1989.

Author : Marion Kaplan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9780300244250

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Hitler’s Jewish Refugees by Marion Kaplan Pdf

An award-winning historian presents an emotional history of Jewish refugees biding their time in Portugal as they attempt to escape Nazi Europe This riveting book describes the dramatic experiences of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler's regime and then lived in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical upheavals these refugees experienced, Marion Kaplan also highlights their feelings as they fled their homes and histories, while having to beg strangers for kindness. Portugal's dictator, António de Oliveira Salazar, admitted the largest number of Jews fleeing westward--tens of thousands of them--but then set his secret police on those who did not move along quickly enough. Yet Portugal's people left a lasting impression on refugees for their caring and generosity. Most refugees in Portugal showed strength and stamina as they faced unimagined challenges. An emotional history of fleeing, this book probes how specific locations touched refugees' inner lives, including the borders they nervously crossed or the overcrowded transatlantic ships that signaled their liberation.

Author : Sarah A. Cramsey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253064974

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Uprooting the Diaspora by Sarah A. Cramsey Pdf

In Uprooting the Diaspora, Sarah Cramsey explores how the Jewish citizens rooted in interwar Poland and Czechoslovakia became the ideal citizenry for a post–World War II Jewish state in the Middle East. She asks, how did new interpretations of Jewish belonging emerge and gain support amongst Jewish and non-Jewish decision makers exiled from wartime east central Europe and the powerbrokers surrounding them? Usually, the creation of the State of Israel is cast as a story that begins with Herzl and is brought to fulfillment by the Holocaust. To reframe this trajectory, Cramsey draws on a vast array of historical sources to examine what she calls a "transnational conversation" carried out by a small but influential coterie of Allied statesmen, diplomats in international organizations, and Jewish leaders who decided that the overall disentangling of populations in postwar east central Europe demanded the simultaneous intellectual and logistical embrace of a Jewish homeland in Palestine as a territorial nationalist project. Uprooting the Diaspora slows down the chronology between 1936 and 1946 to show how individuals once invested in multi-ethnic visions of diasporic Jewishness within east central Europe came to define Jewishness primarily in ethnic terms. This revolution in thinking about Jewish belonging combined with a sweeping change in international norms related to population transfers and accelerated, deliberate postwar work on the ground in the region to further uproot Czechoslovak and Polish Jews from their prewar homes.

Author : Hana Kubátová,Jan Láníček
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351668163

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Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust by Hana Kubátová,Jan Láníček Pdf

Providing diverse insights into Jewish–Gentile relations in East Central Europe from the outbreak of the Second World War until the reestablishment of civic societies after the fall of Communism in the late 1980s, this volume brings together scholars from various disciplines – including history, sociology, political science, cultural studies, film studies and anthropology – to investigate the complexity of these relations, and their transformation, from perspectives beyond the traditional approach that deals purely with politics. This collection thus looks for interactions between the public and private, and what is more, it does so from a still rather rare comparative perspective, both chronological and geographic. It is this interdisciplinary and comparative perspective that enables us to scrutinize the interaction between the individual majority societies and the Jewish minorities in a longer time frame, and hence we are able to revisit complex and manifold encounters between Jews and Gentiles, including but not limited to propaganda, robbery, violence but also help and rescue. In doing so, this collection challenges the representation of these encounters in post-war literature, films, and the historical consciousness. This book was originally published as a special issue of Holocaust Studies.

Author : Katrin Paehler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107157194

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The Third Reich's Intelligence Services by Katrin Paehler Pdf

Gaining a foothold -- Rising star -- Intelligence man -- Office VI and its forerunner -- Competing visions: Office VI and the Abwehr -- Doing intelligence: Italy as an example -- Alternative universes: Office VI and the Auswärtige Amt -- Schellenberg, Himmler, and the quest for "peace"--Postwar

Author : J. Lánicek,Jan Lání?ek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137317476

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Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-48 by J. Lánicek,Jan Lání?ek Pdf

Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the Czechoslovak exiles during and after the war years, and of the implementation of the plans in liberated Czechoslovakia after 1945.

Author : Elisabeth Gallas,Anna Holzer-Kawalko,Caroline Jessen,Yfaat Weiss
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : 3525310838

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Contested Heritage by Elisabeth Gallas,Anna Holzer-Kawalko,Caroline Jessen,Yfaat Weiss Pdf

"In the wake of the Nazi regime's policies, European Jewish cultural property was dispersed, dislocated, and destroyed. Books, manuscripts, and artworks were either taken by their fleeing owners and were transferred to different places worldwide, or they fell prey to systematic looting and destruction under German occupation. The volume illuminates the political and cultural implications of this displaced property by presenting essays with newly discovered archival material and illustrations"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Europe
ISBN : IND:30000108568837

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The Who's who of the Allied Governments by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrzej Franaszek
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674977457

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Milosz by Andrzej Franaszek Pdf

Andrzej Franaszek’s award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz—winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—recounts the poet’s odyssey through WWI, the Bolshevik revolution, the Nazi invasion of Poland, and the USSR’s postwar dominance of Eastern Europe. This edition contains a new introduction by the translators, along with maps and a chronology.

Author : Françoise S. Ouzan,Manfred Gerstenfeld
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004277779

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Postwar Jewish Displacement and Rebirth by Françoise S. Ouzan,Manfred Gerstenfeld Pdf

This volume offers insights into the major Jewish migration movements and rebuilding of European Jewish communities in the mid-twentieth century. Its chapters illustrate many facets of the Jews’ often traumatic post-war experiences. People had to find their way when returning to their countries of origin or starting from scratch in a new land. Their experiences and hardships from country to country and from one community of migrants to another are analyzed here. The mass exodus of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries is also addressed to provide a necessary and broader insight into how those challenges were met, as both migrations were a result of persecution, as well as discrimination.

Author : David Lawson,Libuše Salomonovičovǎ,Hana Šústková
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Holocaust, Jewish
ISBN : 1910383740

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Ostrava and Its Jews by David Lawson,Libuše Salomonovičovǎ,Hana Šústková Pdf

The story of Ostrava and its Jews encapsulates in a small space (85 square miles) and a short time (ca. 150 years) a miniaturized history of Central Europe. It covers industrialization and massive economic growth, immigration and emigration, intolerance and tolerance, multi-culturalism and nationalism, high culture and social welfare, the Holocaust, communism and the diaspora. The book draws on family histories and eye-witness accounts, many unpublished. In 2005 members of Kingston Synagogue became interested in the origins of a Sefer Torah from Ostrava, housed there many years earlier. This research project, led initially by David Lawson, grew to include the Czech historian Hana Sustkova and Czech genealogist Libuse Salomonovicova. As their research progressed, a lively online community developed, reestablishing contacts between families from Sweden to Australia, and South America to Canada. In effect, resurrecting Jewish Ostrava in virtual and actual reality. The overarching theme is how, in a short time, immigrants-in this case Jews-transformed a small conservative market town into a vibrant, tolerant, caring, economic, and cultural powerhouse; how it was destroyed almost overnight by bigotry and intolerance; and to ask how far the Ostrava story can provide lessons or guidance on 21st century political issues. [Subject: Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, Immigration Studies, History]