Arnošt Frischer and the Jewish Politics of Early 20th-Century Europe

AvJan Lánícek

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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In this analysis of the life of Arnošt Frischer, an influential Jewish nationalist activist, Jan Lánícek reflects upon how the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia dealt with the challenges that arose from their volatile relationship with the state authorities in the first half of the 20th century. The Jews in the Bohemian Lands experienced several political regimes in the period from 1918 to the late 1940s: the Habsburg Empire, the first democratic Czechoslovak republic, the post-Munich authoritarian Czecho-Slovak republic, the Nazi regime, renewed Czechoslovak democracy and the Communist regime. Frischer’s involvement in local and central politics affords us invaluable insights into the relations and negotiations between the Jewish activists and these diverse political authorities in the Bohemian Lands. Vital coverage is also given to the relatively under-researched subject of the Jewish responses to the Nazi persecution and the attempts of the exiled Jewish leadership to alleviate the plight of the Jews in occupied Europe.The case study of Frischer and Czechoslovakia provides an important paradigm for understanding modern Jewish politics in Europe in the first half of the 20th century, making this a book of great significance to all students and scholars interested in Jewish history and Modern European history.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-11-17
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:546 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472585899

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Jan Lánícek is Lecturer in Jewish history at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-1948 (2013) and a co-editor of Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during the Second World War (2013).

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Basing his book on extensive archival research in Czechoslovakia and in Canada, Israel, Switzerland, Great Britain, and the US; the contemporary German, Jewish, and Czech press; and a large array of published materials, and including useful maps and illustrations, Lánícek (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia) not only describes the evolution of Frischer’s ideas and strategy on behalf of Czech Jewry but also traces the difficult history of this small, fragmented population whose leadership was divided by language, religious observance, nationalism, and Zionism and was decimated during WW II and by the communist coup in 1948. Frischer’s persistent struggle for Jewish minority rights against the nationalizing projects of successive Prague governments forms the core of this fascinating political and personal portrait.Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Formative Years2. In Masaryk’s Czechoslovakia3. Munich and Occupation, 1938-19394. The Politics of Exile, 1939-19455. Coping with the Catastrophe: The Politics of Rescue in London6. Help for the Jews7. Squaring the Circle: Landespolitik in Post-war Czechoslovakia8. The Second ExileBibliographyIndex