Czechs Germans Jews

Author : Kateřina Čapková
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857454744

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Czechs, Germans, Jews? by Kateřina Čapková Pdf

The phenomenon of national identities, always a key issue in the modern history of Bohemian Jewry, was particularly complex because of the marginal differences that existed between the available choices. Considerable overlap was evident in the programs of the various national movements and it was possible to change one's national identity or even to opt for more than one such identity without necessarily experiencing any far-reaching consequences in everyday life. Based on many hitherto unknown archival sources from the Czech Republic, Israel and Austria, the author's research reveals the inner dynamic of each of the national movements and maps out the three most important constructions of national identity within Bohemian Jewry - the German-Jewish, the Czech-Jewish and the Zionist. This book provides a needed framework for understanding the rich history of German- and Czech-Jewish politics and culture in Bohemia and is a notable contribution to the historiography of Bohemian, Czechoslovak and central European Jewry.

Author : Martin Wein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317608219

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A History of Czechs and Jews by Martin Wein Pdf

Was Israel founded by Czechoslovakia? A History of Czechs and Jews examines this question and the resulting findings are complex. Czechoslovakia did provide critical, secret military sponsorship to Israel around 1948, but this alliance was short-lived and terminated with the Prague Trial of 1952. Israel’s "Czech guns" were German as much as Czech, and the Soviet Union strongly encouraged Czechoslovakia’s help for Israel. Most importantly however, the Czechoslovak-Israeli military cooperation was only part of a much larger picture. Since the mid-1800s, Czechs and Jews have been systematically comparing themselves to each other in literature, music, politics, diplomacy, media, and historiography. A shared perception of similar fates of two small nations trapped between East and West, in constant existential danger, helped forge a Czech-Jewish "national friendship" amid periods of estrangement. Yet, this Czech-Jewish national friendship, an idea that can be traced from Masaryk and Kafka via Weizman and Ben Gurion to Havel and Netanyahu, was more myth than reality. Relations were often mixed and highly dependent on larger historical developments affecting Central Europe and the Middle East. As the Czech Republic emerges as Israel’s main EU ally, this book provides a timely analysis of this old-new alliance and is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in History and Jewish Studies.

Author : Natalia Berger
Publisher : Ministry of Defence Publishing House
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018891864

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Where Cultures Meet by Natalia Berger Pdf

Author : Martin Wein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004301276

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History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands by Martin Wein Pdf

In History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands, Martin Wein traces the interaction of Czechs and Jews, but also of German-speakers, Slovaks, and other groups in the Bohemian lands and in Czechoslovakia throughout the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Wolf Gruner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789202854

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The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia by Wolf Gruner Pdf

Prior to Hitler’s occupation, nearly 120,000 Jews inhabited the areas that would become the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; by 1945, all but a handful had either escaped or been deported and murdered by the Nazis. This pioneering study gives a definitive account of the Holocaust as it was carried out in the region, detailing the German and Czech policies, including previously overlooked measures such as small-town ghettoization and forced labor, that shaped Jewish life. Drawing on extensive new evidence, Wolf Gruner demonstrates how the persecution of the Jews as well as their reactions and resistance efforts were the result of complex actions by German authorities in Prague and Berlin as well as the Czech government and local authorities.

Author : Elizabeth Wiskemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Czech Republic
ISBN : UOM:39015020634252

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Czechs & Germans by Elizabeth Wiskemann Pdf

Author : Chad Bryant
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674261662

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Prague in Black by Chad Bryant Pdf

In September 1938, the Munich Agreement delivered the Sudetenland to Germany. Six months later, Hitler’s troops marched unopposed into Prague and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia—the first non-German territory to be occupied by Nazi Germany. Although Czechs outnumbered Germans thirty to one, Nazi leaders were determined to make the region entirely German. Chad Bryant explores the origins and implementation of these plans as part of a wider history of Nazi rule and its consequences for the region. To make the Protectorate German, half the Czech population (and all Jews) would be expelled or killed, with the other half assimilated into a German national community with the correct racial and cultural composition. With the arrival of Reinhard Heydrich, Germanization measures accelerated. People faced mounting pressure from all sides. The Nazis required their subjects to act (and speak) German, while Czech patriots, and exiled leaders, pressed their countrymen to act as “good Czechs.” By destroying democratic institutions, harnessing the economy, redefining citizenship, murdering the Jews, and creating a climate of terror, the Nazi occupation set the stage for the postwar expulsion of Czechoslovakia’s three million Germans and for the Communists’ rise to power in 1948. The region, Bryant shows, became entirely Czech, but not before Nazi rulers and their postwar successors had changed forever what it meant to be Czech, or German.

Author : Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN : UOM:39015014754967

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The Jews of Czechoslovakia by Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews Pdf

Author : Hana Kubátová,Jan Láníček
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Tomas Sniegon
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785335075

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Vanished History by Tomas Sniegon Pdf

Bohemia and Moravia, today part of the Czech Republic, was the first territory with a majority of non-German speakers occupied by Hitler’s Third Reich on the eve of the World War II. Tens of thousands of Jewish inhabitants in the so called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia soon felt the tragic consequences of Nazi racial politics. Not all Czechs, however, remained passive bystanders during the genocide. After the destruction of Czechoslovakia in 1938-39, Slovakia became a formally independent but fully subordinate satellite of Germany. Despite the fact it was not occupied until 1944, Slovakia paid Germany to deport its own Jewish citizens to extermination camps. About 270,000 out of the 360,000 Czech and Slovak casualties of World War II were victims of the Holocaust. Despite these statistics, the Holocaust vanished almost entirely from post-war Czechoslovak, and later Czech and Slovak, historical cultures. The communist dictatorship carried the main responsibility for this disappearance, yet the situation has not changed much since the fall of the communist regime. The main questions of this study are how and why the Holocaust was excluded from the Czech and Slovak history.

Author : Callum A. MacDonald,Jan Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073290731

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Prague in the Shadow of the Swastika by Callum A. MacDonald,Jan Kaplan Pdf

A richly illustrated album-style history of Prague under Nazi occupation. Ch. 5 (pp. 113-134), "The Prague Jews, " relates to the introduction of anti-Jewish laws and segregation of the Jews in 1939-41, resettlement of Czech Jews, deportations to Theresienstadt and to Poland, and destruction and looting of Jewish communal and private property. Describes, also, the Theresienstadt ghetto, a "show ghetto" aimed to deceive the world concerning the fate of the Jews. States that of 39,395 Jews deported from Prague to Theresienstadt, 31,709 perished. Of the 92,199 Jews who lived in Bohemia and Moravia in 1941, only 14,045 survived.

Author : Zdeněk Beneš,Václav Kural
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Bohemia (Czech Republic)
ISBN : IND:30000096559673

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Facing History by Zdeněk Beneš,Václav Kural Pdf

Author : J. Lánicek,Jan Lání?ek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 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 : Martin Wein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367870649

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A History of Czechs and Jews by Martin Wein Pdf

Was Israel founded by Czechoslovakia? A History of Czechs and Jews examines this question and the resulting findings are complex. Czechoslovakia did provide critical, secret military sponsorship to Israel around 1948, but this alliance was short-lived and terminated with the Prague Trial of 1952. Israel's "Czech guns" were German as much as Czech, and the Soviet Union strongly encouraged Czechoslovakia's help for Israel. Most importantly however, the Czechoslovak-Israeli military cooperation was only part of a much larger picture. Since the mid-1800s, Czechs and Jews have been systematically comparing themselves to each other in literature, music, politics, diplomacy, media, and historiography. A shared perception of similar fates of two small nations trapped between East and West, in constant existential danger, helped forge a Czech-Jewish "national friendship" amid periods of estrangement. Yet, this Czech-Jewish national friendship, an idea that can be traced from Masaryk and Kafka via Weizman and Ben Gurion to Havel and Netanyahu, was more myth than reality. Relations were often mixed and highly dependent on larger historical developments affecting Central Europe and the Middle East. As the Czech Republic emerges as Israel's main EU ally, this book provides a timely analysis of this old-new alliance and is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in History and Jewish Studies.

Author : Elisa-Maria Hiemer,Jiří Holý,Agata Firlej,Hana Nichtburgerová
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110671056

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Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction by Elisa-Maria Hiemer,Jiří Holý,Agata Firlej,Hana Nichtburgerová Pdf

The Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction aims to increase the visibility and show the versatility of works from East-Central European countries. It is the first encyclopedic work to bridge the gap between the literary production of countries that are considered to be main sites of the Holocaust and their recognition in international academic and public discourse. It contains over 100 entries offering not only facts about the content and motifs but also pointing out the characteristic fictional features of each work and its meaning for academic discourse and wider reception in the country of origin and abroad. The publication will appeal to the academic and broader public interested in the representation of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and World War II in literature and the arts. Besides prose, it also considers poetry and theatrical plays from 1943 through 2018. An introduction to the historical events and cultural developments in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Czech, and Slovak Republic, and their impact on the artistic output helps to contextualise the motif changes and fictional strategies that authors have been applying for decades. The publication is the result of long-term scholarly cooperation of specialists from four countries and several dozen academic centres.