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Prague and Beyond Jews in the Bohemian Lands Edited by Kateřina Čapková and Hillel J. Kieval Presenting a new and accessible history of the Jews of what is now the Czech Republic, Prague and Beyond revises conventional understandings of Central Europe’s Jewish past and present and fully captures the diversity and multivalence of life in the Bohemian Lands. Kateřina Čapkova is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, and teaches at New York University, Prague. Hillel J. Kieval is Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis. Jewish Culture and Contexts
“A long-needed, comprehensive, and beautifully written history of the Jews in the Czech lands by an international group of scholars. Combining intricate detail with multi-century narrative sweep, Prague and Beyond is an extraordinary read.”—Helen Epstein, author of Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for her Mother’s History “Prague and Beyond is an impressive work, offering a wellconceived and well-executed overview of the long history of Jews in the Czech lands. The book should be greeted with enthusiasm not only by Czech historians and historians of modern European Jewry, but by European historians more generally and by other readers with an interest in the lost world of pre-Holocaust Europe. All will find something to learn here.”—David Rechter, University of Oxford “There is simply no other integral narrative history of the Jews in the ‘Bohemian lands.’ Prague and Beyond will fill lacunae on reading lists in European and Jewish history, history of the Holocaust, and Central European political science.”—Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University
August Religion, History 384 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 42 illus. 978-0-8122-5311-5 | Hardcover $79.95s | £64.00 978-0-8122-9959-5 | Ebook $79.95t | £64.00 World Rights
