Book Reviews
Book Reviews

Summary/Abstract: 1. Book review by Iveta Cermanová, transl. S. Hattersley Věra Leininger, Auszug aus dem Ghetto. Rechtsstellung und Emazipationsbemühungen der Juden in Prag in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts, Singapore: Kuda Api Press 2006. 429+xlix pp. ISBN: 981-05-6955-6 „Věra Leininger’s book about Prague Jewry at the beginning of emancipation is one of the most extensive treatises on the modern history of the Jews of Bohemia to have been written in the last few decades. The publication in question is a Ph.D. thesis that Leininger defended in 2000 in the Department of East-European History at the University of Cologne. The work focuses chronologically on the first half of the nineteenth century, a period that has been somewhat neglected to date by researchers involved in Jewish history in Bohemia.“ 2. Book review by Jan Dolák, transl. S. Hattersley Magda Veselská, ed., Defying the Beast. The Jewish Museum in Prague, 1906–1940, Prague: Jewish Museum in Prague 2006. 156 pp. ISBN: 80-86889-38-6 „Although it is among the key tasks of every museum to publish catalogues of ist collections, as one of its final products, in practice this is not a particularly frequent endeavour. All the more deserving of attention is the new catalogue with the expressive title Defying the Beast, subtitled The Jewish Museum in Prague, 1906-1940, which charts the collections of this important European museum. The title is a reference to Vilém Mrštík’s famous article from 1897 in response to the demolition of the old Jewish ghetto and to the far more gruesome ‘beast’ that came with Hitler’s fascism.“

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