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The Coasts of Bohemia
A cultural history of the Czech people, examining the significance of the small central European nation's artistic, literary, and political developments from its origins through approximately 1960.
To Tell Their Children
This book offers an examination of Jewish communal memory in Prague in the century and a half stretching from its position as cosmopolitan capital of the Holy Roman Empire (1583-1611) through Catholic reform and triumphalism in the later seventeenth century, to the eve of its encounter with Enlightenment in the early eighteenth. Rachel Greenblatt approaches the subject through the lens of the community's own stories—stories recovered from close readings of a wide range of documents as well as from gravestones and other treasured objects in which Prague's Jews recorded their history. On the basis of this material, Greenblatt shows how members of this community sought to preserve for future ...
Origins of the Czech National Renascence
With the fall of socialism in Europe, the former East bloc nations experienced a rebirth of nationalism as they struggled to make the difficult transition to a market-based economy and self-governance. The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, in particular, underscored the power of ethnic identity and ancestral loyalties.Hugh Agnew develops the argument that Czechoslovakia's celebrated national revival of the mid-eighteenth century has its intellectual roots in the Enlightenment and defined the nation's character and future development. He describes how intellectuals in eighteenth-century Bohemia and Moravia-the "patriotic intelligentsia"-used their discovery of pre-seventeenth-century history and literature to revive the antiquated Czech vernacular and cultivate a popular ethnic consciousness. Agnew also traces the significance of the intellectual influences of the wider Slavic world whereby Czech intellectuals redefined their ethnic and cultural heritage.Origins of the Czech National Renascence contributes to a renewed interpretation of a crucial period in Czech history.
Finding the Middle Way
Can an orthodox Christian creed and ritual be combined with a liberal church administration and a tolerant civic acceptance of not-so-orthodox views and practices? This question—perennial among Catholics for the past two centuries and the goal of the Anglican quest for a via media—finds an affirmative answer in Zdenek V. David's history of the Utraquist church of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Bohemia. This church declared its autonomy from the Roman church in 1415 after the Bohemian preacher Jan Hus, who had decried clerical abuses and opposed the pope's doctrinal and juridical authority, was condemned by a Roman church council and executed. Sometimes called "Hussitist" (a usage David...
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Scrivere dopo per scrivere prima
Partendo dall'assunto che si scrive sempre e comunque dopo che ciò di cui si vuole o deve scrivere è diventato esperienza, di interrogazione e quindi culturale oppure di vita, Giacoma Limentani arriva a concludere che la scrittura deve però essere anche uno “scrivere prima”: un fare cioè in modo che l'esperienza che scrivendo si cerca di comunicare aiuti chi legge a guardare al domani. Il suo è un assunto ambizioso, che non decade però nella presunzione in quanto vuole obbedire all'ebraico imperativo di rifarsi al passato per vivere il presente in funzione del futuro. Non solo per garantire omogeneità all'insieme del volume, fra scritti diversi fra loro che coprono un arco di circa trent'anni, la Limentani ha scelto soprattutto i più centrati sull'ebraismo: quello degli ebrei essendo a un tempo destino e imperativo alla diversità, l'esperienza ebraica è particolarmente attuale in una società nella quale i diversi sono sempre più numerosi e sempre meno tollerati.
