Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Jews of the Bohemian Lands in Early Modern Times Chapter 2. Absolutism and Control: Jews in the Bohemian Lands in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 3. Unequal Mobility: Jews, State, and Society in an Era of Contradictions, 1790–1860 Chapter 4. Contested Equality: Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 1861–1917 Chapter 5. Becoming Czechoslovaks: Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 1917–38 Chapter 6. The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia Chapter 7. Periphery and Center: Jews in the Bohemian Lands from 1945 to the Present Appendix. The Demographic Development of Jewish Settlement in Selected Communities in the Bohemian Lands Notes Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index