“IN THEIR ORDER AND IN THEIR TIME”: PRAGUE, PAST AND PLACE DAVID GANS’ TZEMAH DAVID
“IN THEIR ORDER AND IN THEIR TIME”: PRAGUE, PAST AND PLACE DAVID GANS’ TZEMAH DAVID

Summary/Abstract: I characterize Gans’ focus on order in historical time as essentially bound up with his equal concern with order in astronomical space and, in unpublished works, terrestrial space in the sense of mapping the New World. Gans’ focus on order in time and space, and our examination of the relationship between them, will finally lead me to pose a question (which will remain, at least for now, unanswered): was he concerned, as well, with categorization of terrestrial space on a smaller scale of European geography and particularly of the division of the local urban space in which he lived into Jewish and Christian parts, with the boundary apparently transgressed – most laudably, according to his report – by the visit of the Emperor and Empress to Prague’s Jewish Street?

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