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WORK TITLE: History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands
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PERSONAL

Born 1975, in Essen, Germany.

EDUCATION:

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, B.A., 1998; Emory University, M.A., 2001; Ben Gurion University, Ph.D., 2007.

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CAREER

Culture journalist in Wilhelmshaven; Ben Gurion University, Beersheba, Israel, adjunct lecturer, 2005-07; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, postdoctoral fellow, 2007-09; Emory University, Atlanta, GA, academic representative, 2006—; Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, postdoctoral fellow, 2009—, adjunct lecturer, 2010—. Also teaches at New York University, New York, NY.

MEMBER:

American Historical Association, Association for Jewish Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Emory Alumni Association, European Association for Jewish Studies, German Studies Association, Israeli Historical Society, Kreitman Alumni Association.

WRITINGS

  • Die Weizsäckers: Geschichte einer deutschen Familie, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (Stuttgart, Germany), 1988
  • Deutsche Brüder: zwölf Doppelporträts / [Lektorat, Thomas Karlauf]., Rowohlt (Berlin, Germany), 1994
  • A History of Czechs and Jews: A Slavic Jerusalem (Routledge Jewish Studies Series), Routledge 2015
  • History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands (“Studies in Central European Histories” series), Brill (Boston, MA), 2016

Contributor of articles to periodicals, including Judaica Bohemiae, Zion, Past and Present, Zmanim, and Holocaust Studies.

SIDELIGHTS

German university teacher and historian Martin Wein has published several books on the history of Jews and Czechs, and Jerusalem. He teaches at New York University and Tel Aviv University, focusing his research on Bohemian history, Czechoslovak-Israeli relations, genocide, interreligious relations, and the intersections of religion-language-nationalism in global contexts. He has published academic articles on Czecho-German Jews, holy tongues, Palestino-Centrism and Landespolitik, and anti-Semitism and the State of Israel for such publications as Judaica Bohemiae, Zion, Past and Present, Zmanim, and Holocaust Studies. Wein holds a Ph.D. in Jewish history from Ben Gurion University in Israel.

A History of Czechs and Jews

In 2015, Wein published A History of Czechs and Jews: A Slavic Jerusalem, part of the “Routledge Jewish Studies Series,” in which he ponders the historical contributions of Czechoslovakia founding Israel. He explores the secret military sponsorship of Czechoslovakia to Israel around 1948, the “Czech guns” used by Israel, the Soviet Union encouraging Czechoslovakia for help to Israel, and the Czechoslovakia-Israeli military cooperation.

Wein also discusses similarities and collaboration in literature, music, politics, diplomacy, media, and historiography. Despite a friendship between the nations, there is some myths Wein dispels, and some conflicting opinions and views regarding Central Europe and the Middle East. Wein assesses past and current alliances between Czechoslovakia and Israel.

History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands

Wein published the 2016 History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands, part of the “Studies in Central European Histories” series. In a chronological overview, he presents a modern history of the region and the interaction between Czechs, Slovaks, Jews, Christian German-speakers, and other groups in the Bohemian lands up to the first half of the twentieth century. He discusses the early, high middle, and late Middle Ages periods, early modern period, age of Emperor Rudolf II, Thirty Years’ War, and period of reform under Joseph II. During the twentieth century, there was accelerated nation-building, rise of Austria-Hungary, France, Nazi Germany, and Soviet Union.

The thirteen chapters span the fin-de-siècle crisis of 1897-1900 to Czechoslovakia’s Jewish survivor community from 1945-1948. Wein examines Christian-Jewish relations, interreligious alliances of Jews with Protestants and political parties, Social Democratic movements, settlements and legal status of Jews, professions, scholarship, anti-Jewish accusations and pogroms, history of Jewish self-government, and book culture and Messianism. He discusses works by writers of Prague’s Czech-German-Jewish founders of theories of nationalism, Hans Kohn, Karl W. Deutsch, and Ernest Gellner. Wein also features works at the Maisel Synagogue including illustrations, documents, old books, paintings, maps, and textiles.

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  • Martin Wein Home Page,  http://www.mjwein.net (June 1, 2017), author profile.*

  • Die Weizsäckers: Geschichte einer deutschen Familie Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (Stuttgart, Germany), 1988
  • Deutsche Brüder: zwölf Doppelporträts / [Lektorat, Thomas Karlauf]. Rowohlt (Berlin, Germany), 1994
  • A History of Czechs and Jews: A Slavic Jerusalem (Routledge Jewish Studies Series) Routledge 2015
  • History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands ( “Studies in Central European Histories” series) Brill (Boston, MA), 2016
Library of Congress Online Catalog 1. History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands LCCN 2015029124 Type of material Book Personal name Wein, Martin Joachim, 1973- author. Main title History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands / by Martin Wein. Published/Produced Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] Description xii, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. ISBN 9789004301269 (hardback : alk. paper) Shelf Location FLM2016 017040 CALL NUMBER DS135.C95 W494 2016 OVERFLOWJ34 Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms (FLM2) 2. Die Weizsäckers : Geschichte einer deutschen Familie LCCN 89123970 Type of material Book Personal name Wein, Martin, 1925- Main title Die Weizsäckers : Geschichte einer deutschen Familie / Martin Wein. Published/Created Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, c1988. Description 574 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. ISBN 3421063893 CALL NUMBER LC COPY IN PROCESS: to shelflist 11-28-89 Copy 1 Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms 3. Deutsche Brüder : zwölf Doppelporträts LCCN 95195809 Type of material Book Main title Deutsche Brüder : zwölf Doppelporträts / [Lektorat, Thomas Karlauf]. Published/Created Berlin : Rowohlt, c1994. Description 399 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ISBN 3871342033 CALL NUMBER DD85 .D46 1994 Copy 1 Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ONLINE CATALOG Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave., SE Washington, DC 20540 Questions? Ask a Librarian:
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    INTERESTS (alphabetical)
    MARTIN J. WEIN, Ph.D.
    martinjwein@yahoo.com www.mjwein.net
    1. Bohemian, Czech, and Czechoslovak Studies
    2. Cultural and Historical Linguistics, Bible and Sacred Text Translation
    3. Ethnic Cleansing, Expulsion, Genocide, Holocaust
    4. Interreligious Relations: Christianity—Islam—Judaism
    5. Jewish History, Zionism, Israel, Middle Eastern Studies
    6. Theory of History, Theory of Nationalism, Collective Memory
    EDUCATION
    Ph.D. in Jewish History, 2007 (summa cum laude)
    Dissertation: “Nation–Cleansing and Wars of Authenticity: Czech Nationalism and Jewish Politics” (with Dan Diner and Gulie Ne’eman–Arad)
    Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
    M.A. in Jewish Studies, 2001
    Master’s Thesis: “Czechoslovakia’s First Republic, Zionism and Israel” (with Hillel J. Kieval and Deborah Lipstadt)
    Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
    B.A. (equivalent) in American Studies, Linguistics, Theater/Film/Media Studies, 1998
    Honor’s Thesis: “Legitimate Transference in Multilingual Language Acquisition” Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
    Adjunct Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, 2010–present
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2009–present
    Academic Representative in Israel and Lecturer, Center for International Programs Abroad, Emory University, 2006–present
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History and Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2007–2009
    Adjunct Lecturer, Ben Gurion University 2005–2007
    PUBLICATIONS
    BOOKS
    Under Review:
    1. Martin J. Wein, “A Slavic Jerusalem”: An Intimate History of Czechs and Jews. In Progress:
    2. Martin J. Wein, A History of Christian-Jewish Relations in the Bohemian Lands and Czechoslovakia in the Age of Nationalism.
    PEER–REVIEWED ARTICLES
    1. Martin J. Wein, “Only Czecho–German Jews?” Zion 70, no. 3 (2005): 383–92 (Hebrew).
    2. Martin J. Wein, “Zionism in the Bohemian Lands Before 1918.” Judaica Bohemiae 43 (May, 2008): 121–38.
    3. Martin J. Wein, “Chosen Peoples—Holy Tongues: Religion, Language, Nationalism and Politics in Bohemia and Moravia in the Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries.” Past and Present 202 (February, 2009), 37–81.
    4. Martin J. Wein, “Zionism in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Palestino–Centrism and Landespolitik.” Judaica Bohemiae 44 (April, 2009): 5–47.
    5. Martin J. Wein. “The Prague Trial, Antisemitism and the State of Israel.” Zmanim 16 (Fall, 2011): 78–89 (Hebrew).
    Accepted for Publication:
    6. Benjamin Hary and Martin J. Wein, “Religiolinguistics: On Jewish–, Christian–, and Muslim–Defined Languages.” International Journal of the Sociology of Language 219 (Spring, 2013).
    7. Martin J. Wein, “The Czechoslovak Exile in London and the Jews, 1938–1945.” Holocaust Studies, forthcoming.
    In Progress:
    8. Martin J. Wein and Benjamin Hary, “Peoples of the Book: Religion, Language, Nationalism and Bible Translation.”
    PEER–REVIEWED BOOK SECTIONS
    9. Martin J. Wein, “Jüdisch–tschechischer Gedächtnistransfer im Schatten Deutschlands und Polens,” 103–13. In Die Destruktion des Dialogs: Zur innenpolitischen Instrumentalisierung negativer Fremdbilder und Feindbilder:
    Wein / CV / 2
    Polen, Tschechien, Deutschland und die Niederlande im Vergleich, 1900 bis heute.
    D. Bingen, P. O. Loew and K. Wóycicki, eds. Deutsches Polen Institut, Darmstadt, and Harrossowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2007.
    Accepted for Publication:
    10. Martin J. Wein, “Masaryk a židé: Konec romantizace?” In Náboženství a politika: Češi—Němci—Slováci ve 20. století. M. Schulze Wessel, K. Kaiserová and E. Nižňanský, eds. Společná česko–německá a slovensko–německá komise historiků and Albis International, Ústí nad Labem, forthcoming
    10a. Martin J. Wein, “Masaryk und die Juden: Der Romantisierung Ende?” In Religion und Politik: Tschechen, Deutsche und Slowaken im 20. Jahrhundert. M. Schulze Wessel, K. Kaiserová and E. Nižňanský, eds. Veröffentlichungen der Deutsch– Tschechischen und Deutsch–Slowakischen Historikerkommission and Klartext Verlag, Essen, forthcoming.
    CONFERENCE PAPERS AND SOLICITED PRESENTATIONS
    1. “Peoples of the Book: The Impact of Bible Translation on Religion, Languge, and Nationalism,” with Benjamin Hary, Tel Aviv University, School of Education Reearch Forum, January 2013
    2. “Die Verflechtung von Jüdischen Studien mit anderen Fächern: Das Beispiel Sprachwissenschaft,” Zentrum Jüdische Studien und Humboldt Universität Berlin, November 2012
    3. “Zionism in Moravia: Ideas from Vienna—Emigration to the Holy Land,” The Land in Between: Three Centuries of Jewish migration to, from and across Moravia, 1648-1948, Conference of the Central European University, Budapest, and Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, November 2012
    4. “Masaryk and the Jews,” Hussite Theological Faculty, Charles University, Prague, November 2012
    5. “From the Czechoslovak-Israeli Arms Deals to the Prague Trial,” Middle Eastern Studies Department, Charles University, Prague, October 2012
    6. “Israeli Reactions to the Slánský Trial,” Conference of the Prague Center for Jewish Studies, Charles University, October 2012
    7. “Czechoslovakia, Israel, and the Cold War,” Washington University, St. Louis, September 2012
    8. “Diachronic Perspectives on Language, Religion, Nationalism and Bible Translation,” Emory University, September 2012
    9. “Interreligious Relations: Judaism and Greek Orthodoxy,” Nea Skiti, Mount Athos, Greece, February 2012
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    10. “Religiolinguistics: Mapping a New Field,” with Benjamin Hary, S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, Tel Aviv University, May 2011
    11. “Christians and Jews in Interwar Ruthenia,” Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University, March 2011
    12. “What is Genocide? A Comparative Perspective,” Program for Conflict Resolution and Mediation, Tel Aviv University, January 2011
    13. “Forgotten Shtels: A Portrait of the Jewish Community of Ruthenia,” Jewish Studies Seminar, Emory University, September 2010
    14. “The Czechoslovak Exile in London and the Jews, 1938–1945,” Governments–in– Exile and the Jews during the Second World War, Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non–Jewish Relations, University of Southampton, Britain, March 2010
    15. “Nationalism and the Holocaust: Integrating the Holocaust into General History,” Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University, January 2010 (Hebrew)
    16. “The Prague Trial, Zionism and Israel: Background, Process and Memory, 1948– 2009,” Ze’ev Rubin Forum, School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University, December 2009
    17. “Prague Liberalism,” A Portrait of German Jewry, Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem and Minerva Institute for German History, Tel Aviv University, March 2009
    18. “Antisemitism and Anti–Zionism in the Prague Trials,” Avraham Harman Institute for Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, February 2009 (Hebrew)
    19. “Nationalism and the Holocaust: Czechoslovakia’s Christian–Jews, 1938–1949,” General and Jewish History Seminar, Hebrew University, May 2008
    20. “Religiolinguistics: A Jewish Studies Perspective,” with Benjamin Hary, English Department Seminar, Haifa University, March 2008
    21. “Totalitarian Democracy in the Framework of Theory of Nationalism,” Jacob L. Talmon Lecture, Israeli Academy of Sciences, Jerusalem, January 2008
    22. “An End to Romance? Masaryk and the Jews Revisited,” Intergenerational Dialogue of Historians, Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem, January 2008
    23. “Nation–Cleansing: Expanding Notions of Ethnic Cleansing,” Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference, Columbia University, New York, April 2007
    24. “Christian–Jewish Families in Czechoslovakia in the First Half of the Twentieth Century,” Jewish Studies Seminar, Emory University, April 2007
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    25. “Eternal Conversions: Czechoslovakia as a Multi–Religious State,” Czech– German–Slovak Historians Conference, Teplá, Czech Republic, March 2007
    26. “The Memory of Czech–Jewish and Czechoslovak–Israeli Relations,” Sidney R. and Esther Raab Lecture, Ben Gurion University, February 2007 (Hebrew)
    27. “Myths of Czechs as Jews and Jews as Czechs,” Jewish Studies Seminar, Emory University, December 2005
    28. “The Development of Standard Languages: The Czech Case,” Emory Linguistic Colloquium, Emory University, December 2005
    29. “Christian–, Jewish– and Muslim–Defined Languages,” with Benjamin Hary, Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2005
    30. “Tschechisch–jüdische Solidarität als eine politische Konstruktion,” Conference of the German Polish Institute, Darmstadt, Germany, November 2005
    31. “A Double Portrait of Alfred Fuchs and Jiří Langer,” World Union of Jewish Studies Conference, Hebrew University, August 2005 (Hebrew)
    32. “The Czechs in Israeli Collective Memory,” Conference of the Association of Israel Studies, Hebrew University, June 2004
    33. “Only Czecho–German Jews?” From Maharal to Masaryk – International Seminar on Czech Jewish History, Hebrew University, May 2004
    34. “Jewish Policies of Czechoslovakia,” Conference of the European Association for Jewish Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2002
    35. “Reflecting the Past—Projecting the Present: On the Role of Jewish Studies at the Universities,” David R. Blumenthal Lecture, Emory University, January 2001
    TEACHING EXPERIENCE
    GRADUA TE
    History and Memory in Tel Aviv–Jaffa, Tel Aviv University, Fall 2011
    Introduction to Theory of History, Ben Gurion University, Spring 2006, Spring 2007
    UNDERGRADUA TE
    Czech Jewish History, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, Fall 2012
    History and Memory in the Holy Land, Emory University in Israel, Spring/Fall 2007, Spring/Fall 2008, Spring/Fall 2009, Spring/Fall 2010, Spring/Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012
    Wein / CV / 5
    History and Memory in Tel Aviv–Jaffa, Tel Aviv University, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Summer 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012
    Sephardic and Interreligious History in Europe, Emory University in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Summer 2006, Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Summer 2011
    Genocide, War and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century, Tel Aviv University, Fall 2010
    Biblical, Jewish and Israeli Languages, Ben Gurion University, Summer 2007
    A History of Jewish Languages, Ben Gurion University, Spring 2005 Additional Courses Developed
    Introduction to Jewish Civilization
    History of the Jews in East Central Europe
    History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands: Objects, Texts, Bodies, Theories
    Peoples of the Book: The Impact of Bible Translation on Religion, Language, Nationalism, and the Structure of Knowledge
    ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND (selection)
    • Pedagogy and Virtual Teaching Seminar, Ben Gurion University, Spring 2005
    • Minerva Graduate Student Summer School in Modern Jewish History, Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig, Germany, Summer 2003
    • Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity Seminar, Emory University, Summer 1998
    SERVICE AND VOLUNTEERING (selection)
    • International Fundraiser, Anonymous for Animal Rights, Tel Aviv–Jaffa, 2006–2011
    • Editor of Holocaust Testimonies, Emory University, March–May 2000
    • Organizational Assistant, Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and the Study of Modern Hebrew, Emory University, February 2000
    • Organizational Assistant, Conference of the Association for Judeo–Arabic Studies, Emory University, September 1999
    • Internship, Fritz Bauer Study and Documentation Center on the History and Impact of the Holocaust, Frankfurt, May–December 1997
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    HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS (selection)
    2011–2012: Margarita Pazi Award for Research of Bohemian Jewry, Moshe and Margarita
    Pazi Foundation, Tel Aviv
    2010–2011: Book Publication Grant, Jewish Studies Enrichment Fund, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University
    2009–2010: Vatat Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tel Aviv University
    2008–2009: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University
    Talmon Prize, Hebrew University
    2007–2008: Lady Davis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University
    Raab Award for Holocaust Research, Ben Gurion University
    2005–2007: Graduate Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York 2002–2003: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Grant, Simon Dubnow Institute 2001–2005: Kreitman Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, Ben Gurion University 2001–2002: Blumenthal Award for Jewish Studies, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
    Interuniversity Fellowship, International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization and the Committee on University Study in Israel, New York
    1998–2001: Graduate Student Fellowship, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
    1994–1995: Erasmus Fellowship for Studies at Charles University Prague, European Union Erasmus Program, Brussels, Belgium
    MEMBERSHIPS
    American Historical Association; Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Emory Alumni Association; European Association for Jewish Studies; German Studies Association; Israeli Historical Society; Kreitman Alumni Association
    LANGUAGES
    Czech, English, German, Hebrew on native or near–native levels. Good speaking and reading proficiencies in French and Spanish. Some speaking and reading proficiencies in (Eastern) Arabic. Additional reading proficiencies at various levels in Aramaic, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Yiddish.
    Wein / CV / 7

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    In History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands, Martin Wein traces the interaction of Czechs and Jews, but also of Christian German-speakers, Slovaks, and other groups in the Bohemian lands and in Czechoslovakia throughout the first half of the twentieth century. This period saw accelerated nation-building and nation-cleansing in the context of hegemony exercised by a changing cast of great powers, namely Austria-Hungary, France, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union. The author examines Christian-Jewish and inner-Jewish relations in various periods and provinces, including in Subcarpathian Ruthenia, emphasizing interreligious alliances of Jews with Protestants, such as T. G. Masaryk, and political parties, for example a number of Social Democratic ones. The writings of Prague’s Czech-German-Jewish founders of theories of nationalism, Hans Kohn, Karl W. Deutsch, and Ernest Gellner, help to interpret this history.

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    Biographical note
    Martin Wein, Ph.D. (2007), teaches history at New York University and Tel Aviv University. He has published Czech and Jews: A Slavic Jerusalem (Routledge, 2015), and many articles on related topics, including “Chosen Peoples—Holy Tongues: Religion, Language, Nationalism and Politics in Bohemia and Moravia in the Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries” (Past and Present 202:1, 2009, 37-81).
    Readership
    Anyone interested in the modern history of the Bohemian lands, Czechs, or Czechoslovakia, as well as anyone concerned with Jewish Central European history, or (history of) theory of nationalism.
    Table of contents
    Preface ... ix
    Acknowledgements ... xi
    List of Figures and Tables ... xiii
    Archival Abbreviations ... xiv

    1 Introduction ... 1
    Prague as a Theoretical Starting Point ... 3
    History and Theory of Nationalism ... 8
    Nation-cleansing ... 14
    Christian-Jewish Relations ... 17
    About This Book ... 20

    2 The Great Fin-de-Siècle Crisis, 1897–1900 ... 22
    Language Ordinances and the Political Parties ... 23
    Party Politics ... 26
    Press Incitement ... 30
    Economic Boycotts and “Sanitation” ... 35
    Riots and Blood Libels ... 38
    The Hilsner Trial ... 40
    Leopold Hilsner ... 42
    Karel Baxa ... 43

    3 Fallout: The Impact of the Crisis, 1900–1914 ... 46
    From German-Liberalism to Zionism in Prague ... 47
    Berta Fanta ... 54
    Czech-Jews Revisited ... 55
    Jewish Allies Reconsidered ... 58
    Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk ... 60

    4 World War I and the Founding of Czechoslovakia, 1914–1920 ... 64
    Christians and Jews in the Great War ... 65
    Ostjuden ... 68
    The Czechoslovak Exile ... 70
    The Prague Revolution ... 74
    Czechoslovakia’s Borders ... 76
    “Pogromstimmung” ... 82

    5 The First Republic and the Minorities, 1920–1938 ... 89
    From French to Nazi German Czechoslovakia ... 93
    Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia as Czech Colonies? ... 100
    Jews and Other Minorities ... 103
    The End of German-Liberalism ... 106
    Czechoslovakia’s Hungarian-speaking Minority ... 109
    International Minority Politics ... 111
    German and Austrian Refugees in Czechoslovakia ... 114

    6 Jewish Religion in Czechoslovakia, 1920–1938 ... 119
    Jewish Religion in the Bohemian Lands ... 120
    Jiří Langer ... 124
    Alfred Fuchs ... 127
    Christians and Jews in Slovakia ... 130
    Christians and Jews in Subcarpathian Ruthenia ... 135
    Hayim Eleazar Shapira ... 141

    7 Jewish Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1920–1938 ... 147
    Red Jews—Green Jews ... 149
    Two Missions to the East ... 157
    Zionist Internal Colonialism ... 159
    Slovak-Jews ... 161
    Jewish Education in Subcarpathian Ruthenia ... 164
    Hayim Kugel ... 169

    8 The Munich Agreement and the Second Republic, 1938–1939 ... 172
    Road to Munich ... 173
    In the No Man’s Land ... 178
    “Czecho-Slovakia” ... 181
    Czech Fascism? ... 184
    The First Transfer Agreement ... 189
    Marie Schmolková ... 192

    9 Nazi Germany’s “Protectorate,” 1939–1945 ... 195
    Fascist Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia ... 197
    The “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” ... 199
    The Nazi Genocide in the “Protectorate” ... 201
    Resistance and Collaboration ... 204
    Milena Jesenská ... 208

    10 World War II and the Czechoslovak Exile, 1938–1945 ... 212
    Familiar Exiles ... 213
    Return to the Native? ... 216
    The Czechoslovak Army-in-Exile in Poland ... 218
    Svoboda’s Army ... 220
    Liberation? ... 224

    11 The Reconstitution of Czechoslovakia, the Third Republic, and the Rise of Communism, 1945–1948 ... 228
    A Historical Opportunity? ... 230
    Czechoslovakia’s Great Nation-Cleansing ... 233
    The Pitter-Fierz Reports ... 238
    The Romany Survivor Community ... 240
    Making of a Communist State ... 242
    A New Dictatorship ... 245

    12 Czechoslovakia’s Jewish Survivor Community, 1945–1948 ... 249
    A Demography of Survivors ... 251
    Jewish Population Movements ... 253
    Restitution and Riots ... 257
    Organizations, Press, and Education ... 262
    Crackdown ... 264
    The Second Transfer Agreement ... 266
    “Crossbreeds” ... 268
    Closed Gates ... 270

    13 Conclusions ... 274

    Appendices ... 279
    Appendix A: Terminology ... 279
    Appendix B: Population Statistics of Czechoslovakia ... 289
    Appendix C: Jewish Religious Movements in Czechoslovakia ... 291

    Bibliography ... 292
    Index ... 320

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Studies in Central European Histories; Volume 61 DS135
This book traces the interaction of Czechs and Jews, as well as German-speakers and other minorities, respectively Slovaks, in the Bohemian lands and in Czechoslovakia throughout the first half of the twentieth centuryua phase of accelerated nation-building/nation cleansing under various rulers with changing great power protectors (Austria- Hungary, France, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union). Thirteen chapters cover the great fin-de-siecle crisis, 1897- 1900; fallout; World War I and the founding of Czechoslovakia, 1914-1920; the first republic and the minorities, 1920-1938; Jewish religion in Czechoslovakia, 1920-1938; Jewish politics in Czechoslovakia, 1920-1938; the Munich Agreement and the second republic, 1938-1939; Nazi GermanyAEs oprotectorateo, 1939-1945; World War II and the Czechoslovak exile, 1938-1945; the reconstitution of Czechoslovakia, the third republic and the rise of communism, 1945-1948; and CzechoslovakiaAEs Jewish survivor community, 1945-1948. ([umlaut] Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands." ProtoView, Feb. 2016. PowerSearch, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
p=GPS&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA442064341&it=r&asid=670f20fe86ca63e09db536ff8e5ec524. Accessed 15 May 2017.
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"History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands." ProtoView, Feb. 2016. PowerSearch, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GPS&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA442064341&it=r. Accessed 15 May 2017.