TY - JOUR TI - Modernity, Identity, and Beyond: Historiography on the Jews of the Bohemian Lands in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries AU - Koeltzsch, Ines TI - Modernity, Identity, and Beyond: Historiography on the Jews of the Bohemian Lands in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries AB - 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 cenĀ­ter, 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. VL - 2016 IS - Nr 1 (37) PY - 2016 SN - 1506-9729 C1 - 2450-0100 SP - 41 EP - 64 DO - 10.4467/24500100STJ.16.002.5348 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-judaica/article/modernity-identity-and-beyond-historiography-on-the-jews-of-the-bohemian-lands-in-the-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-centuries KW - Keywords: historiography KW - Jews KW - Bohemian Lands KW - modernity KW - identity KW - center KW - periphery KW - Czechoslovakia.