Publication

2006 - University of Nebraska Press

Language

English

Word Count

112,500 words, Guess

Page Count

450 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2005009414
  • Goodreads301874
  • LibraryThing2550559

Classifications

  • LCCDS135.C95.R68 2005

Description

"Livia Rothkirchen provides a detailed and comprehensive history of how Nazi rule in the Czech lands was shaped as much by local culture and circumstances as by military policy. The extraordinary nature of the Czech Jews' experience emerges clearly in chapters on the role of the Jewish minority in Czech life, the crises of the Munich agreement and the German occupation, the reaction of the local population to the persecution of the Jews, the policies of the London-based government-in-exile, the question of Jewish resistance, and the special case of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto. The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia is based on a wealth of primary documents, many uncovered only after the 1989 November Revolution. With an epilogue on the post-1945 period, this richly woven historical narrative supplies information essential to an understanding of the history of the Jews in Europe."--Jacket.

First Sentence

Throughout the centuries early Jewish settlement in the Bohemian Crownlands has intrigued many a scholar trying to determine the precise date of its beginning.

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Other Editions

  • The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: Facing the Holocaust (Comprehensive History of the Holocaust)HardcoverUniversity of Nebraska Press2006-01-01

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