| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 464 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture |
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Contents |
From Premyslids to Habsburgs : Moravian Jewry in the "Land of Canaan" -- Rabbinic enlightenment : Mordecai Benet and the Moravian Haskalah, 1789-1829 -- Nehemias Trebitsch and the decline of the Moravian chief rabbinate, 1832-1842 -- Locking antlers : Hirsch Fassel, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and the forging of a new rabbinical ideal -- Conflict and revolution : Samson Raphael Hirsch and the politics of leadership, 1847-1849 -- On the altar of freedom : Moravian Jewry and the Revolution of 1848 -- Emancipation and its aftershocks : the reorganization of Moravian Jewry -- Drifting rabbis, shifting centers, and the burgeoning Czech-German conflict |
| Summary |
Drawing on archives in the Czech Republic, Austria, Israel, and the United States, this book takes a comparative approach examining the distinctiveness of Moravian Jewry so as to shed light on the religious, ideological, political, and socioeconomic challenges that transformed Central European Jewry as a whole |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Jews -- Czech Republic -- Moravia -- History -- 19th century
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Judaism -- Czech Republic -- Moravia -- History -- 19th century
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Judaism -- Czech Republic -- Moravia -- History -- Modern period, 1750-
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HISTORY.
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HISTORY -- Jewish.
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Ethnic relations -- Political aspects
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Jews
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Judaism
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| SUBJECT |
Moravia (Czech Republic) -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century
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Austria -- History -- Revolution, 1848-1849 -- Influence
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| Subject |
Austria
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Czech Republic -- Moravia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804776523 |
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0804776520 |
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