Židovská náboženská komunita v českých zemích mezi válkami

Title:

Židovská náboženská komunita v českých zemích mezi válkami
Jewish religious community in the Czech lands between the two World Wars

Creator:

Čapková, Kateřina

Identifier:

https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/125192

Subject:

Study of Religions

Type:

Article

Format:

text/pdf

Description:

At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the religious Jewish community in the Czech lands underwent a change which to some extent paralleled the developments in the society as a whole. In the middle of the 19th century, religious practices still played a central role in the daily life of every Jew. They included regular attendance of services, observing holidays, receiving basic religious education, respecting the rabbinical authority and traditional household roles. -- Yet, merely within several decades, these formal manifestations of Jewishness changed radically in the Czech lands, especially in Bohemia. The basic thesis of this paper is that the life of Jewish communities and affiliated institutions in the Czech lands was influenced mainly by a decrease in the number of village communities and emergence of reformed urban communities; a decline of rabbinical education and the prestige of that profession; as well as the fact that only very few Jewish refugees from Poland and Russia sought the Czech lands as their destination. ...

Language:

Czech

Rights:

unknown

Relation:

https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/en/handle/11222.digilib/124610
https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/en/_flysystem/fedora/pdf/125192.pdf

Harvested from:

Digital Library of Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University

Metadata only:

false

Date:

2007