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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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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 |
| Summary: | 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 bas. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804788816 0804788812 |