The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938-89

Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Zionism

Bibliographic Data

ID23534377
AuthorsHana Kubátová (0000-0003-2581-3828), Jan Láníček (0000-0001-9766-0141)
Year2018
Publication date2018-01-29
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938-89 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004362444
OpenAlexW2785490772
ISBN9789004362444
LanguageEN
Citations received5

The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination,1938-89 is the first critical inquiry into the nature of anti-Jewish prejudices in both main parts of former Czechoslovakia. The authors identify anti-Jewish prejudices over almost fifty years of the twentieth century, focusing primarily on the post-Munich period and the Second World War (1938–45), the post-war reconstruction (1945–48), as well as the Communist rule with both its thaws and returns to hardline rule (1948–89). It is a provocative examination of the construction of the image of 'the Jew' in the Czech and Slovak majority societies, the assigning of character and other traits – real or imaginary – to individuals or groups. The book analyses the impact of these constructed images on the attitudes of the majority societies towards the Jews, and on Holocaust memory in the country. "This meticulously researched study covers the late 1930s to the 1960s in Czechoslovakia, then when Slovakia became a separate country under Nazi domination during WW II and much of the Czech Republic was a German 'protectorate.'...Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty, professionals." - R.M. Seltzer, emeritus, Hunter College, CUNY, in: CHOICE 55.12 (2018)

Archaeology · Art · Character (mathematics) · Communism · Czech · German · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Slovak · The Holocaust · The Imaginary · World War II · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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