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Prague Jews in 20th century: plurality of their identities
Honsová, Karolína ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Soukupová, Blanka (referee)
This thesis deals with national, religious and political identity of Prague Jews in the era of the First Republic and in the first postwar decade. The first, theoretical part, is based on study of thematic literature. It describes historical experience of the jewish community in the Czech lands. It is focused not only on history of the jewish community itself, but also on the history of the relationship between jewish minority and majority society, and between jewish community and the government. It also tries to depict the identity of Czech Jews and its changing due to transformation of social conditions. The second, research part of the thesis is based on analysis of interviews with jewish eyewitnesses. It examines national, religious and political identities of those eyewitnesses and their families. In the part dealing with national identity it tries to find out whether it was Czech, Jewish or German national identity that was most important to Prague Jews during the followed period. In the part that dwells on religious identity we aspire to answer the question to what extent were Jews in Prague religious and what religion meant to them. When it comes to political identity we try to find out what was the political orientation of Prague Jews, and what kind of a relationship they have to the...
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