Bohemia's Jews and Their Nineteenth Century: Texts, Contexts, Reassessments (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788024652887)

Bohemian Jewish culture and literature during the underexamined 1820s to 1880s.

This book on Jewish culture and literature focuses on the "quiet" decades of the nineteenth century, a scarcely written-about period of time in Bohemian Jewish history. Using a myriad of sources, including travelers' accounts, poems, essays, short stories, guides, and newspaper articles, the volume explores Jewish expression, Jewish-Czech relations, and the changing attitudes toward Jews between the 1820s and 1880s. It offers close readings of writers like Karel Havlícek Borovský, Ján Kollár, Siegfried Kapper, and Jan Neruda, as well as lesser-known authors and sources. Combining skillful sustained analysis, judicious argumentation, and elegant writing, the book is a truly enriching reading experience.

Author: Jindrich Toman
ISBN-10: 8024652889
ISBN-13: 9788024652887
Publisher: Karolinum Press, Charles University
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2023
Pages: 335
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 8.74h x 6.46w x 1.02d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2024