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To Tell Their Children : Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague.
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 Enlighte...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2014.
©2014 |
| Series: | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Illustrations; Note on Transliterations and Names; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "Metropolis of Jews' Streets" : Shapes of Prague Memory in Jewish Town and Jewish Time ; 2. "Death Entered into Our Window" : Living and Dead in Cemetery and Synagogue ; 3. "A Remembrance for Me and My Descendants" : Autobiographical Writing and Familal Commemoration ; 4. "Established the Day" : Authorship, Communal Authority, and Local Traditions ; 5. "That a Future Generation Will Know" : Narrating History in Book, Tale, and Song ; 6. "In the Language People Understand" : Print and Manuscript.
- Vernacular and Sacred Women and Men ; Conclusion: ""No Need to Name It All"" : Toward a History of Forgetting ; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.