In the Shadows of the Holocaust and Communism: Czech and Slovak Jews Since 1945, Alena Heitlinger (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2006), xiii + 238 pp., 39.95
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the transformation initiated by the Communist coup in February 1948, and the emigration following the creation of the state of Israel in May 1948, only 15,000–18,000 Czech and Slovak Jews remained in Czechoslovakia. With less than one-tenth of Czechoslovakia's...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 120-123 |
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| Summary: | In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the transformation initiated by the Communist coup in February 1948, and the emigration following the creation of the state of Israel in May 1948, only 15,000–18,000 Czech and Slovak Jews remained in Czechoslovakia. With less than one-tenth of Czechoslovakia's prewar Jewish population remaining, only nine of 153 prewar Czech Jewish communities were reestablished, the largest (with 3,000 members) in Prague. Only forty-three Jewish communities were reestablished in Slovakia. Most communities were very small and had difficulty even forming a minyan., Alena Heitlinger examines identity formation among a generation of Czech and Slovak Jews who grew up under communism and came of age in the mid-sixties, well after de-Stalinization. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn008 |