Zionists in interwar Czechoslovakia : minority nationalism and the politics of belonging / Tatjana Lichtenstein.
Material type: TextSeries: Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)Publisher: Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780253018724
- 0253018722
- Zionism -- Czechoslovakia -- History
- Jews -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- 20th century
- Czechoslovakia -- Ethnic relations
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference
- RELIGION -- Judaism -- History
- Ethnic relations
- Jews
- Zionism
- Czechoslovakia
- 1900-1999
- 320.5409569409437/09041 23
- DS149.5.C94 L53 2016eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Minority nationalism and Zionists' politics of belonging -- The Jews of Czechoslovakia: a mosaic of cultures -- Jewish power and powerlessness: Zionists, Czechs, and the Paris Peace Conference -- Mapping Jews: social science and the making of Czechoslovak Jewry -- Conquering communities: Zionists, cultural renewal, and the state -- A stateless nation's territory: Zionists and the Jewish schools -- Making new Jews: Maccabi in Czechoslovakia -- Promised lands: Zionism and Communism in interwar Czechoslovakia -- The storm of barbarism.
This book presents an unconventional history of minority nationalism in interwar Eastern Europe. Focusing on an influential group of grassroots activists, Tatjana Lichtenstein uncovers Zionist projects intended to sustain the flourishing Jewish national life in Czechoslovakia. The book shows that Zionism was not an exit strategy for Jews, but as a ticket of admission to the societies they already called home. It explores how and why Zionists envisioned minority nationalism as a way to construct Jews' belonging and civic equality in Czechoslovakia. By giving voice to the diversity of aspirations within interwar Zionism, the book offers a fresh view of minority nationalism and state building in Eastern Europe.
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