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The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands

By: Hillel J. Kieval

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The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands

By: Hillel J. Kieval

The author examines the Jewish experience of the past two hundred years in Bohemia and Moravia (the present day Czech Republic), including history, myth, demograohics, biography, culture and politics.

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Univ of California Press

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0520214102

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Blood Inscriptions

Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle

By: Hillel J. Kieval

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Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle

By: Hillel J. Kieval

Although the Enlightenment had seemed to bring an end to the widely held belief that Jews murdered Christian children for ritual purposes, charges of the so-called blood libel were surprisingly widespread in central and eastern Europe on either side of the turn to the twentieth century. Well over one hundred accusations were made against Jews in this period, and prosecutors and government officials in Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia broke with long established precedent to bring six of these cases forward in sensational public trials. In Blood Inscriptions Hillel J. Kieval examines four cases—the prosecutions that took place at Tiszaeszlár in Hungary (1882-83), Xanten in Germany (1891-92), Polná in Austrian Bohemia (1899-1900), and Konitz, then Germany, now in Poland (1900-1902)—to consider the means by which discredited beliefs came to seem once again plausible. Kieval explores how educated elites took up the accusations of Jewish ritual murder and considers the roles played by government bureaucracies, the journalistic establishment, forensic medicine, and advanced legal practices in structuring the investigations and trials. The prosecutors, judges, forensic scientists, criminologists, and academic scholars of Judaism and other expert witnesses all worked hard to establish their epistemological authority as rationalists, Kieval contends. Far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, these ritual murder trials were in all respects a product of post-Enlightenment politics and culture. Harnessed to and disciplined by the rhetoric of modernity, they were able to proceed precisely because they were framed by the idioms of scientific discourse and rationality.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812298381

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Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle

By: Hillel J. Kieval

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Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle

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The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands

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Jewish Soldiers in the Collective Memory of Central Europe

The Remembrance of World War I from A Jewish Perspective

By: Gerald Lamprecht,Eleonore Lappin-Eppel,Ulrich Wyrwa

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Jewish Soldiers in the Collective Memory of Central Europe

The Remembrance of World War I from A Jewish Perspective

By: Gerald Lamprecht,Eleonore Lappin-Eppel,Ulrich Wyrwa

World War I marks a huge break in Central European Jewish history. Not only had the violent wartime events destroyed Jewish life and especially the living space of Eastern European Jews, but the impacts of war, the geopolitical change and a radicalization of anti-Semitism also led to a crisis of Jewish identity. Furthermore, during the process of national self-discovery and the establishing of new states the societal position of the Jews and their relationship to the state had to be redefined. These partially violent processes, which were always accompanied by anti-Semitism, evoked Jewish and Gentile debates, in which questions about Jewish loyalty to the old and/or new states as well as concepts of Jewish identity under the new political circumstances were negotiated. This volume collects articles dealing with these Jewish and gentile debates about military service and war memory in Central Europe.

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Böhlau Wien

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3205208420

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Languages of Community

Languages of Community

Blood Inscriptions

Blood Inscriptions

Blood Inscriptions

Blood Inscriptions

Languages of Community

Languages of Community

Jewish Soldiers in the Collective Memory of Central Europe

Jewish Soldiers in the Collective Memory of Central Europe

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