Bohemia’s Jews and Their Nineteenth Century

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Bohemia’s Jews and Their Nineteenth Century is written by Jindřich Toman and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 8024652889 (ISBN 10) and 9788024652887 (ISBN 13).

This book on Jewish culture and literature focuses on the “quiet” decades of the nineteenth century, a scarcely written-about period of time in Bohemian Jewish history. Using a myriad of sources, including travelers’ accounts, poems, essays, short stories, guides, and newspaper articles, the volume explores Jewish expression, Jewish-Czech relations, and the changing attitudes toward Jews between the 1820s and 1880s. It offers close readings of writers like Karel Havlíček Borovský, Ján Kollár, Siegfried Kapper, and Jan Neruda, as well as lesser-known authors and sources. Combining skillful sustained analysis, judicious argumentation, and elegant writing, the book is a truly enriching reading experience.