To Tell Their Children Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague
Greenblatt, Rachel.
To Tell Their Children Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague - Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (320 pages) - Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C .
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Includes bibliographies and index.
This book offers an examination of Jewish communal memory in Prague in the century and a half stretching from its position as cosmopolitan capital of the Holy Roman Empire (1583-1611) through Catholic reform and triumphalism in the later seventeenth century, to the eve of its encounter with Enlightenment in the early eighteenth. Rachel Greenblatt approaches the subject through the lens of the community's own stories-stories recovered from close readings of a wide range of documents as well as from gravestones and other treasured objects in which Prague's Jews recorded their history. On the bas
9780804788816
Collective memory.
Jews.
Prague (Czech Republic).
Jews--Historiography.--Czech Republic--Prague
Collective memory--Czech Republic--Prague.
Electronic Books.
DS135 / .T684 2014
To Tell Their Children Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague - Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (320 pages) - Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
This book offers an examination of Jewish communal memory in Prague in the century and a half stretching from its position as cosmopolitan capital of the Holy Roman Empire (1583-1611) through Catholic reform and triumphalism in the later seventeenth century, to the eve of its encounter with Enlightenment in the early eighteenth. Rachel Greenblatt approaches the subject through the lens of the community's own stories-stories recovered from close readings of a wide range of documents as well as from gravestones and other treasured objects in which Prague's Jews recorded their history. On the bas
9780804788816
Collective memory.
Jews.
Prague (Czech Republic).
Jews--Historiography.--Czech Republic--Prague
Collective memory--Czech Republic--Prague.
Electronic Books.
DS135 / .T684 2014