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Prague in Danger

Author : Peter Demetz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429930357
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Prague in Danger written by Peter Demetz and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia's great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter Demetz focuses on just six short years—a tormented, tragic, and unforgettable time. He was living in Prague then—a "first-degree half-Jew," according to the Nazis' terrible categories—and here he joins his objective chronicle of the city under German occupation with his personal memories of that period: from the bitter morning of March 15, 1939, when Hitler arrived from Berlin to set his seal on the Nazi takeover of the Czechoslovak government, until the liberation of Bohemia in April 1945, after long seasons of unimaginable suffering and pain. Demetz expertly interweaves a superb account of the German authorities' diplomatic, financial, and military machinations with a brilliant description of Prague's evolving resistance and underground opposition. Along with his private experiences, he offers the heretofore untold history of an effervescent, unstoppable Prague whose urbane heart went on beating despite the deportations, murders, cruelties, and violence: a Prague that kept its German- and Czech-language theaters open, its fabled film studios functioning, its young people in school and at work, and its newspapers on press. This complex, continually surprising book is filled with rare human detail and warmth, the gripping story of a great city meeting the dual challenge of occupation and of war.

Prague

Author : Chad Bryant
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674258835
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Prague written by Chad Bryant and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the lives of five remarkable people who struggled against nationalism and intolerance in one of Europe’s most stunning cities. What does it mean to belong somewhere? For many of Prague’s inhabitants, belonging has been linked to the nation, embodied in the capital city. Grandiose medieval buildings and monuments to national heroes boast of a glorious, shared history. Past governments, democratic and Communist, layered the city with architecture that melded politics and nationhood. Not all inhabitants, however, felt included in these efforts to nurture national belonging. Socialists, dissidents, Jews, Germans, and Vietnamese—all have been subject to hatred and political persecution in the city they called home. Chad Bryant tells the stories of five marginalized individuals who, over the last two centuries, forged their own notions of belonging in one of Europe’s great cities. An aspiring guidebook writer, a German-speaking newspaperman, a Bolshevik carpenter, an actress of mixed heritage who came of age during the Communist terror, and a Czech-speaking Vietnamese blogger: none of them is famous, but their lives are revealing. They speak to tensions between exclusionary nationalism and on-the-ground diversity. In their struggles against alienation and dislocation, they forged alternative communities in cafes, workplaces, and online. While strolling park paths, joining political marches, or writing about their lives, these outsiders came to embody a city that, on its surface, was built for others. A powerful and creative meditation on place and nation, the individual and community, Prague envisions how cohesion and difference might coexist as it acknowledges a need common to all.

Beautiful Stories of Golden Prague

Author : Eduard Petiška
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Stories of Golden Prague written by Eduard Petiška and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here you can read of old Bohemian rulers and artists, rich men of Prague and its poor, the renowned buildings of the ancient city, the loves of its people, their moments of happiness and of suffering. The fate of the Czech nation is reflected in the legends wreathing the capital city of the Bohemian kingdom. This selective choice of the most attractive Prague stroies will be your guide on your walks through Prague."--Provided by Publisher.

Prague

Author : Bernd F. Gruschwitz
Publisher : Hunter Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9783886182350
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Prague written by Bernd F. Gruschwitz and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colourful, handy-sized travel guides with separate map.

Prague in Black and Gold

Author : Peter Demetz
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1429930640
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Prague in Black and Gold written by Peter Demetz and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 1998-03-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. In Prague in Black and Gold, Peter Demetz strips away sentimentalities and distortions and shows how Czechs, Germans, Italians, and Jews have lived and worked together for over a thousand years.

Prague

Author : Klaus H. Carl
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 1639198334
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Prague written by Klaus H. Carl and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Czech capital has a fascinating history of intrigue. It is a mixture of a past torn between Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire with remarkable monuments and a people whose soul rises above the events of the moment. It is the history of Central Europe in a nutshell, where Renaissance, Baroque, Gothic and Stalinist architecture compete side by side for attention.

Prague

Author : Craig Turp
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 075666957X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Prague written by Craig Turp and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a detachable map affixed to inside flap of back cover.

Prague 20th Century Architecture

Author : Michael Kohout
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783211832295
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Prague 20th Century Architecture written by Michael Kohout and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-04-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pocket-sized yet comprehensive guidebook to modern architecture in Prague shows its development from the Art Nouveau and beginnings of the Modern Style at the turn of the 20th century, the unique Cubist buildings from the years before World War I, the "National Style" of the newly established Czechoslovak Republic, the functionalist avant-garde of the inter-war period, the most remarkable examples of post-World War II buildings, and the revival of architectural production after 1989. 200 pages cover 220 buildings spanning the period 1900 to 1997. Each entry contains a descriptive text, period photographs, and selected entries are provided with plans. An indispensable companion for discovering the vast architectural heritage of the Czech capital.

Prague

Author : Harald Salfellner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788072532193
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Prague written by Harald Salfellner and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Story of Prague

Author : Francis hrabe Lützow
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Prague written by Francis hrabe Lützow and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Story of Prague" is a book that discusses the history of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. The book contains the history of Prague at its earliest period, from the reigns of Charles IV to the executions at Prague in 1621, through Walks and Excursions near Prague. It is an informative book that tells the history of this incredible city with adequate annotations and illustrations.

Prague - Czech Republic

Author : Hana Černá
Publisher : Hunter Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9783886189076
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Prague - Czech Republic written by Hana Černá and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Fully colour-illustrated travel guides packed with information on the history and culture of a destination.

Praguewalks

Author : Ivana Edwards
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 146686589X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Praguewalks written by Ivana Edwards and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prague has been described as a museum in which people live and work, for nowhere are things ancient and beautiful as concentrated as they are in Prague. A book for impassioned lovers of history and romance, Praguewalks includes five intimate walking tours, plus photos and maps.

Prague - Travel Europe

Author :
Publisher : Script edizioni
ISBN 13 : 8866146021
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Prague - Travel Europe written by and published by Script edizioni. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 866 acres of historic centre placed, since 1992, on the UNESCO World Heritage List. A recognition that Prague has earned because of the streets of Mala Strana, the Jewish ghetto with its cemetery, the Hradčany district with its Castle and the Old Town with Charles Bridge. But the charm of the Czech capital is due today to architecture, design and a vibrant culture that transformed the city into the European capital of creativity.Here the Old and the New face each other, as Art Nouveau and Rococo facades alternate with futuristic buildings like the Dancing House designed by Frank Gehry. Whether you are there for only 48 hours or longer, for business or leisure, this Travel Europe guide selected for you the best of the city, through new trendy addresses and well-known destinations, contemporary design and tradition, low budget solutions and more exclusive locations. The guide provides you quick information about tourist trails, shopping, museums, hotels, cafés, restaurants and clubs. Moreover, a conversation manual, a city map and a transport map.

Childhood

Author : Moses Rosenkranz
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815631781
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Childhood written by Moses Rosenkranz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the original Kindheit, written in 1958 and published in German in 2003, David Dollenmayer’s edition makes this remarkable work available to a much-deserved wider audience. Moses Rosenkranz came from impoverished roots in rural Bucovina and gained acclaim for his poetry only late in his life. He survived the same Rumanian fascist work camp as his fellow poet Paul Celan, only to be arrested by the Russians in 1947 and interned in the Gulag for ten years. With his richly detailed recollections of rural life among Jews, Ukrainians, Rumanians, Poles, and Germans in Bucovina, a colorful parade of characters, and a remarkable eloquence, Rosenkranz recaptures a vanished moment of cultural history. The author’s unvarnished portraits of love, jealousy, and passion in his extensive family bring a fresh resonance to his poetry.

City and Region

Author : Wendelin Strubelt
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
ISBN 13 : 3863884442
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book City and Region written by Wendelin Strubelt and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the development of cities and regions in times of decisive transformation in Europe throughout these past twenty years. In the Western parts of Europe cities and regions were challenged from the outside by globalisation and by technological and demographic change from the inside. On top of that the Eastern parts were confronted with deep restructuring processes enforced by the transition from socialist to capitalistic structures. By now, all European cities and regions are confronted with challenges stemming from a new global competition for jobs, population and status. Authors from different national backgrounds of Central Europe are analysing and reflecting on these changing structures and processes..

Janacek and His World

Author : Michael Brim Beckerman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691116768
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Janacek and His World written by Michael Brim Beckerman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janácek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time. Banned for all purposes from the Prague stage until the age of 62, and unable to make it even out of the provincial capital of Brno, his operas are now performed in dynamic productions throughout the globe. This volume brings together some of the world's foremost Janácek scholars to look closely at a broad range of issues surrounding his life and work. Representing the latest in Janácek scholarship, the essays are accompanied by newly translated writings by the composer himself. The collection opens with an essay by Leon Botstein who clarifies and amplifies how Max Brod contributed to Janácek 's international success by serving as "point man" between Czechs and Germans, Jews and non-Jews. John Tyrrell, the dean of Janácek scholars, distills more than thirty years of research in "How Janácek Composed Operas," while Diane Paige considers Janácek's liason with a married woman and the question of the artist's muse. Geoffrey Chew places the idea of the adulterous muse in the larger context of Czech fin de siècle decadence in his thoroughgoing consideration of Janácek's problematic opera Osud. Derek Katz examines the problems encountered by Janácek's satirically patriotic "Excursions of Mr. Broucek" in the post-World War I era of Czechoslovak nationalism, while Paul Wingfield mounts a defense of Janácek against allegations of cruelty in his wife's memoirs. In the final essay, Michael Beckerman asks how much true history can be culled from one of Janácek's business cards. The book then turns to writings by Janácek previously unpublished in English. These not only include fascinating essays on Naturalism, opera direction, and Tristan and Isolde, but four impressionistic chronicles of the "speech melodies" of daily life. They provide insight into Janácek's revolutionary method of composition, and give us the closest thing we will ever have to the "heard" record of a Czech pre-war past-or any past, for that matter.

The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia

Author : Livia Rothkirchen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803205023
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia written by Livia Rothkirchen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem “We were both small nations whose existence could never be taken for granted,” Vaclav Havel said of the Czechs and the Jews of Israel in 1990, and indeed, the complex and intimate link between the fortunes of these two peoples is unique in European history. This book, by one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of Czech and Slovak Jewry during the Nazi period, is the first to thoroughly document this singular relationship and to trace its impact, both practical and profound, on the fate of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust. Livia Rothkirchen provides a detailed and comprehensive history of how Nazi rule in the Czech lands was shaped as much by local culture and circumstances as by military policy. The extraordinary nature of the Czech Jews’ experience emerges clearly in chapters on the role of the Jewish minority in Czech life; the crises of the Munich agreement and the German occupation, the reaction of the local population to the persecution of the Jews, the policies of the London-based government in exile, the question of Jewish resistance, and the special case of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto. The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia is based on a wealth of primary documents, many uncovered only after the 1989 November Revolution. With an epilogue on the post-1945 period, this richly woven historical narrative supplies information essential to an understanding of the history of the Jews in Europe.