A History of Czechs and Jews: A Slavic Jerusalem

ISBN-13: 9780367870645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 262 str.

Martin Wein

Opis

Was Israel founded by Czechoslovakia? A History of Czechs and Jews examines this question and the resulting findings are complex. Czechoslovakia did provide critical, secret military sponsorship to Israel around 1948, but this alliance was short-lived and terminated with the Prague Trial of 1952. Israel’s "Czech guns" were German as much

Spis treści

Introduction 1 From Czech-German to Czech-Jewish National Friendship, 1780-1918 2 The Balfour Declaration, Czechoslovakia’s Independence, and the Interwar period, 1917-1938 3 From the Partition of Czechoslovakia to the Partition of British Palestine, 1938-1948 4 Communist Czechoslovakia and Israel, 1948-1989 5 The Velvet Revolution, the breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Middle East Conflict, 1989-2012 Conclusion

O autorze

Martin Wein teaches at New York University and Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on Bohemian history, Czechoslovak-Israeli relations, and the triangular relationship of religion-language-nationalism in global contexts.