To Tell Their Children: Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague - Hardcover

by Rachel L. Greenblatt (Author)

This book brings together a uniquely wide variety of sources, including historical chronicles, gravestones, ritual objects, liturgy, popular songs and more, to sketch a portrait of the ways in which Jews of this storied, populous, understudied community preserved their own local history and sought to transmit it to future generations.

Author Biography

Rachel L. Greenblatt is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.