To tell their children : Jewish communal memory in early modern Prague /
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| Author / Creator: | Greenblatt, Rachel L., 1968- author. |
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| Imprint: | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014] |
| Description: | xvi, 301 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9952387 |
Table of Contents:
- Illustrations
- Note on Transliterations and Names
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: That Children "Will Rise Up to Tell Their Children"
- 1. "Metropolis of Jews' Streets" Shapes of Prague Memory in Jewish Town and Jewish Time
- 2. "Death Entered into Our Window" Living and Dead in Cemetery and Synagogue
- 3. "A Remembrance for Me and My Descendants" Autobiographical Writing and Familial Commemoration
- 4. "Established the Day" Authorship, Communal Authority, and Local Traditions
- 5. "That a Future Generation Will Know" Narrating History in Book, Tale, and Song
- 6. "In the Language People Understand" Print and Manuscript; Vernacular and Sacred; Women and Men
- Conclusion: "No Need to Name It All": Toward a History of Forgetting
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
