Modernity, Identity, and Beyond: Historiography on the Jews of the Bohemian Lands in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

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Abstract: The author discusses the main developments in the historiography on the Jews of the Bohemian Lands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which has expanded considerably since the 1980s. The historiographical debates have been focused mainly on conceptions of modernization/modernity and identity/loyalty and are characterized by a desire to avoid linear and homogeneous ascriptions. Nevertheless, a number of gaps still exist in the research. So far, the Jewish history of the Bohemian Lands has been focused mainly on its center, Prague, and lacks distinct studies in comparative history, the history of cultural transfer and/or entangled history. These analytical restrictions need to be overcome in order to achieve a more succinct contextualization within modern European Jewish history.

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identity, center, periphery, Czechoslovakia., Keywords: historiography, Jews, Bohemian Lands, modernity

Keywords: historiography, Jews, Bohemian Lands, modernity, identity, center, periphery, Czechoslovakia.

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Information: Studia Judaica, 2016, pp. 41 - 64

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.16.002.5348

Article type: Original article

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Polish:

Modernity, Identity, and Beyond: Historiography on the Jews of the Bohemian Lands in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

English:

Modernity, Identity, and Beyond: Historiography on the Jews of the Bohemian Lands in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Authors

Ines Koeltzsch

Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Masarykův ústav a archiv Akademie věd České republiky) (Prague, Czech Republic)

Published at: 05.12.2016

Article status: Open

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