History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Archival Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Prague as a Theoretical Starting Point -- History and Theory of Nationalism -- Nation-cleansing -- Christian-Jewish Relations -- About This Book -- Chapter 2 The Great Fin-de-Siècle Crisis, 1897-1900 -- Language Ordinances and the Political Parties -- Party Politics -- Press Incitement -- Economic Boycotts and "Sanitation" -- Riots and Blood Libels -- The Hilsner Trial -- Leopold Hilsner -- Karel Baxa -- Chapter 3 Fallout: The Impact of the Crisis, 1900-1914 -- From German-Liberalism to Zionism in Prague -- Berta Fanta -- Czech-Jews Revisited -- Jewish Allies Reconsidered -- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk -- Chapter 4 World War I and the Founding of Czechoslovakia, 1914-1920 -- Christians and Jews in the Great War -- Ostjuden -- The Czechoslovak Exile -- The Prague Revolution -- Czechoslovakia's Borders -- "Pogromstimmung" -- Chapter 5 The First Republic and the Minorities, 1920-1938 -- From French to Nazi German Czechoslovakia -- Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia as Czech Colonies? -- Jews and Other Minorities -- The End of German-Liberalism -- Czechoslovakia's Hungarian-speaking Minority -- International Minority Politics -- German and Austrian Refugees in Czechoslovakia -- Chapter 6 Jewish Religion in Czechoslovakia, 1920-1938 -- Jewish Religion in the Bohemian Lands -- Jiří Langer -- Alfred Fuchs -- Christians and Jews in Slovakia -- Christians and Jews in Subcarpathian Ruthenia -- Hayim Eleazar Shapira -- Chapter 7 Jewish Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1920-1938 -- Red Jews-Green Jews -- Two Missions to the East -- Zionist Internal Colonialism -- Slovak-Jews -- Jewish Education in Subcarpathian Ruthenia -- Hayim Kugel -- Chapter 8 The Munich Agreement and the Second Republic, 1938-1939 -- Road to Munich.

In the No Man's Land -- "Czecho-Slovakia" -- Czech Fascism? -- The First Transfer Agreement -- Marie Schmolková -- Chapter 9 Nazi Germany's "Protectorate," 1939-1945 -- Fascist Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia -- The "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" -- The Nazi Genocide in the "Protectorate" -- Resistance and Collaboration -- Milena Jesenská -- Chapter 10 World War II and the Czechoslovak Exile, 1938-1945 -- Familiar Exiles -- Return to the Native? -- The Czechoslovak Army-in-Exile in Poland -- Svoboda's Army -- Liberation? -- Chapter 11 The Reconstitution of Czechoslovakia, the Third Republic, and the Rise of Communism, 1945-1948 -- A Historical Opportunity? -- Czechoslovakia's Great Nation-Cleansing -- The Pitter-Fierz Reports -- The Romany Survivor Community -- Making of a Communist State -- A New Dictatorship -- Chapter 12 Czechoslovakia's Jewish Survivor Community, 1945-1948 -- A Demography of Survivors -- Jewish Population Movements -- Restitution and Riots -- Organizations, Press, and Education -- Crackdown -- The Second Transfer Agreement -- "Crossbreeds" -- Closed Gates -- Chapter 13 Conclusions -- Appendix A Terminology -- Appendix B Population Statistics of Czechoslovakia -- Appendix C Jewish Religious Movements in Czechoslovakia -- Bibliography -- Index.

In History of the Jews in the Bohemian Lands, Martin Wein traces the interaction of Czechs and Jews, but also of German-speakers, Slovaks, and other groups in the Bohemian lands and in Czechoslovakia throughout the first half of the twentieth century.

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