Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
To Tell Their Children: Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague

To Tell Their Children: Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague

Greenblatt, Rachel L.

Hardcover

Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

General World History

ISBN10: 080478602X
ISBN13: 9780804786027
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Feb 26 2014
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book offers an examination of Jewish communal memory in Prague in the century and a half stretching from its position as cosmopolitan capital of the Holy Roman Empire (1583-1611) through Catholic reform and triumphalism in the later seventeenth century, to the eve of its encounter with Enlightenment in the early eighteenth. Rachel Greenblatt approaches the subject through the lens of the community's own stories--stories recovered from close readings of a wide range of documents as well as from gravestones and other treasured objects in which Prague's Jews recorded their history. On the basis of this material, Greenblatt shows how members of this community sought to preserve for future generations their memories of others within the community and the events that they experienced.

Also in

General World History

View All