Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia

Tatjana Lichtenstein is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

• AcknowledgementsList of Place NamesIntroduction: Making Jews at Home1. The Jews of Czechoslovakia—A Mosaic of Cultures2. Jewish Power and Powerlessness: Zionists, Czechs and the Paris Peace Conference3. Mapping Jews: Social Science and the Making of Czechoslovak Jewry4. Conquering Communities: Zionists, Cultural Renewal, and the State5. A Stateless Nation's Territory: Zionists and the Jewish Schools6. Making New Jews: Maccabi in Czechoslovakia7. Promised Lands: Zionism and Communism in Interwar CzechoslovakiaEpilogue: "A Storm of Barbarism"NotesBibliographyIndex

"[W]ell researched and meticulously cited . . . Recommended."—Choice"Lichtenstein's book makes a dynamic contribution to the recent historiography of the Jewish experience in twentieth century."—Hungarian Historical Review"This richly detailed monograph, based on an array of archival and contemporary secondary sources, is a welcome addition to modern European, but especially modern Jewish, historiography."—European History Quarterly"Lichtenstein's book is of utmost importance for the understanding of Zionism as a national movement beyond the national project in Palestine."—East Central Europe"[A] well-documented and insightful monograph. "—American Historical Review"It has long been known that unlike elsewhere in East Central Europe, for census purposes, Jews in Czechoslovakia were recognized as a separate nationality as well as a religious group. Tatjana Lichtenstein explores the ramification of this distinction for Zionists and their interactions with this state in important study of Jewish nationalism."—Harriet Pass Freidenreich, Temple University"Lichtenstein is to be commended for writing what promises to be a definitive account of Jewish minority nationalism in interwar Czechoslovakia. . . The detailed geographic and ideological contextualization of the Czech case study will interest all scholars researching Jewish history in central and eastern Europe, as well as the history of nation-building in modern Europe."—Slavic Review"Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia is a powerful study of interwar Zionism in Czechoslovakia that both complicates the picture and draws simple and useful parallels to contemporaneous developments in Europe"—Austrian Studies