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Author Greenblatt, Rachel, 1968- author

Title To tell their children : Jewish communal memory in early modern Prague / Rachel L. Greenblatt
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations
Series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Contents Introduction : that children "will rise up to tell their children" -- "Metropolis of Jews' streets" : shapes of Prague memory in Jewish town and Jewish time -- "Death entered into our window" : living and dead in cemetery and synagogue -- "A remembrance for me and my descendants" : autobiographical writing and familial commemoration -- "Established the day" : authorship, communal authority and local traditions -- "That a future generation will know" : narrating history in book, tale and song -- "In the language people understand" : print and manuscript; vernacular and sacred; men and women -- Conclusion : "no need to name it all" : towards a history of forgetting
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 th
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Collective memory -- Czech Republic -- Prague
Jews -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- Historiography
Collective memory.
Geschichtsschreibung
Historiography.
Jews -- Historiography.
Juden
Kollektives Gedächtnis
SUBJECT Prague (Czech Republic) -- Historiography
Subject Czech Republic -- Prague.
Prag.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 080478602X
9780804786027
0804788812
9780804788816