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Emancipatory Jewish Communities in Moravia and Silesia
Baránek, Daniel ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Nesládková, Ludmila (referee) ; Řepa, Milan (referee)
The dissertation deals with the theme of the Jewish communities that were able to originate in Moravia and Silesia as a result of the civil emancipation of Jews in the middle of the 19th century. The individual chapters focus on the different aspects of the emancipatory Jewish commu- nities from their external institutional manifestations to their internal social structures, which reflec- ted the plurality of transforming religious, national and political identities within Jewish society. Attention is first devoted to the legal and demographic prerequisites for the establishment and development of Jewish settlement in the places where the Jews were not allowed to live before the emancipation. The emancipatory Jewish communities did not emerge as mere clusters of mem- bers of the Jewish minority, but rather as organized religious communities. Therefore, the work devotes great space to the genesis of small pre-emancipatory prayer fellowships, to their tranfor- mation to religious associations and religious communities, then focuses on attempts to transform the religious communities into democratic or national ones and on their degradation and destruction by the Nazi occupiers. The thesis examines the various factors influencing the "organization of Jewry" (attitude of the state authorities to the...
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"Gott Wolle Geben Gesundheit in Leben, Brot, Geldt, Frieden und Ruh. Endlich dem Himml derzur." Demographic, economic, social and family aspects of the life of the rural subjects in the 18th century
Seligová, Markéta ; Maur, Eduard (advisor) ; Horská, Pavla (referee) ; Nesládková, Ludmila (referee)
The work is dealing with seďs' economic, demographic and social conditions on the North Bohemian estate ofHorní Police in the 18th century. It seeks to examine to what extent factors independent of will of man took share in career of individuals and to what degree the scope for free serf decision-making was available in the early modem society. The work is based on the fact that it is possible to trace back the so called life cycles of particular social strata conditioned by gender in spite of a broad range of ordinary people' s individual fates. The work keeps to seďs' lists ofHorní Police which have been handed down in a coherent number since 1709. This source of key importance for the study both of life cycles and of a number of demographic indicators has been complemented by the analysis of further materials which arose from activities of the manorial court, from land and particularly church registers. A great attention has been paid to the research of circumstances which considerably influenced career of the individuals: of the economic situation in the region strongly depended on natural and climatic conditions, of demographic indicators closely connected with economic conditions, particularly in the question of marriage availability, of the structure of the population and ofland availability. The...
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