| Hillel J. Kieval |
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Publications
Books
The Making of Czech Jewry: National Conflict and Jewish Society in Bohemia, 1870-1918. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000.
Blood Inscriptions: The "Ritual Murder" Trial in Modern Europe. Forthcoming, University of California Press.
Articles and Book Chapters
"Choosing to Bridge: Revisiting the Phenomenon of Jewish Cultural Mediation," Bohemia (forthcoming 2005). Special volume on Germans, Jews, and Czechs in the Czech lands.
"Neighbors, Strangers, Readers: The Village and the City in Jewish-Gentile Conflict at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century," Jewish Studies Quarterly 12 (2005).
"Ritual Murder (modern)," in Encyclopedia of Antisemitism, Anti-Jewish Prejudice, and Persecution, edited by Richard S. Levy. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
"Introduction: Jewish Experiences of America," Contemporary Jewry 24 (2004).
"Imagining 'Masculinity' in the Jewish Fin de Siècle." In: Jews and Gender: The Challenge to Hierarchy, ed. Jonathan Frankel (Studies in Contemporary Jewry 16), pp. 142-155. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
"Antisemitism and the City: A Beginner's Guide." In: People and the City: Jews and the Urban Challenge, ed. Ezra Mendelsohn (Studies in Contemporary Jewry 15), pp. 3-18. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
"Texts and Contest: Myth, Community, and Conflict in Nineteenth Century Bohemia." In: History and Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, eds. Elisheva Carlebach, John Efron, and David Myers, pp. 348-368. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1998.
"Un Salon à Prague," Les Cahiers du Judaisme 1, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 4-13.
"The Importance of Place: Comparative Aspects of the Ritual Murder Trial in Modern Central Europe." In: Comparing Jewish Societies, ed. Todd M. Endelman, pp.135-165. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
"Middleman Minorities and Blood: Is there a Natural Economy of the Ritual Murder Accusation in Europe?" In: Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe, eds. Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid, pp. 208-233. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.
"Pursuing the Golem of Prague: Jewish Culture and the Invention of a Tradition," Modern Judaism 17 (1997): 1-23.
"Death and the Nation: Jewish Ritual Murder as Political Discourse in the Czech Lands," Jewish History 10, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 75-91.
"Antisémitisme ou Savoir Social? Sur la genèse du procès moderne pour meurtre rituel," Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales 49 (1994): 1091-1105.
"Representation and Knowledge in Medieval and Modern Accounts of Jewish Ritual Murder," Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society, New Series, 1 (1994-95): 52-72.
"La Vie de la Communauté juive en Pologne au XVIIIe Siècle (note critique)," Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales 49 (1994): 671-680.
"Jews, Czechs, and Germans in Bohemia Before 1914." In: Austrians and Jews in the Twentieth Century: From Franz Joseph to Waldheim, ed. Robert S. Wistrich, pp. 19-37. New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan Press, 1992.
"The Social Vision of Bohemian Jews: Intellectuals and Community in the 1840s." In: Assimilation and Community: The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe, eds. Jonathan Frankel and Steven Zipperstein, pp. 246-283. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
"The Lands Between: The Jews of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia to 1918." In: Where Cultures Meet: The Story of the Jews of Czechoslovakia, ed. Natalia Berger, pp. 23-51. Tel Aviv: Beth Hatefutsoth/Ministry of Defence, 1990.
Hebrew edition: " 'Artsot ha-beinayim: yehudei bohemia, moravia, ve-slovakia 'ad 1918." In: Mifgash tarbuyot: Sipuram shel yehudei tshekhoslovakia, ed. Natalia Berger, pp. 25-51. Tel Aviv: Beth Hatefutsoth and Ministry of Defence Publishing House, 1991.
Czech edition: "Zem mezi: etí, moravtí a sloventí idé." In: Na kizovatce kultur: Historie eskoslovenskch id, ed. Natalia Bergerová, pp. 23-52. Prague: Mladá Fronta, 1992.
German edition: "Die Länder dazwischen: Die Juden in Böhmen, Mähren und der Slowakei bis 1918." In: Wo sich Kulturen begegnen: Die Geschichte der tschechoslowakischen Juden, ed., Natalia Berger, pp. 23-52. Prague: Mladá Fronta, 1992.
Also trans. and repr. in: Edna Brocke and Michael Zimmermann, eds., Das Jüdsiche Museum in Prag: Von schönen Gegenständen und ihren Besitzern. Bonn: J.H.W. Dietz, 1991, pp. 38-59.
"Masaryk and Czech Jewry: The Ambiguities of Friendship." In: T. G. Masaryk (1850-1937): Thinker and Politician, ed. Stanley B. Winters, pp. 302-327. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1990.
"Caution's Progress: The Modernization of Jewish Life in Prague, 1780-1830." In: Toward Modernity: The European Jewish Model, ed. Jacob Katz, pp. 71-105. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1987.
"Education and National Conflict in Bohemia: Germans, Czechs, and Jews." In: Jews and Other Ethnic Groups in a Multi-Ethnic World, ed. Ezra Mendelsohn (Studies in Contemporary Jewry 3), pp. 49-71. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
"Nationalism and Antisemitism: The Czech-Jewish Response." In: Living With Antisemitism: Modern Jewish Responses, ed. Jehuda Reinharz, pp. 210-233. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1987.
"In the Image of Hus: Refashioning Czech Judaism in Post-Emancipatory Prague," Modern Judaism 5 (1985): 141-157.
"Autonomy and Interdependence: The Historical Legacy of Czech Jewry." In: The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections, ed. David Altshuler, pp. 46-109. New York: Summit Books, 1983.
"Legality and Resistance in Vichy France: The Rescue of Jewish Children," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 124 (1980): 339-366.
Work in Progress
The Talmud and Its Discontents: Denunciation, Apologetics, and Practices of Reading at the Fin de Siècle. Current book project.
Courses Taught
Introduction to Jewish Civilization
History of the Jews in Christian Europe to 1789
Jews in the Modern World
The Jewish Experience in Eastern Europe
Diaspora in Jewish and Islamic Experience
The Holocaust: History and Memory
History, Memory, and Collective Identities
Experience
Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, and Fellow of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, Brandeis University 1982-85.
Assistant Professor to Full Professor, Dept. of History and Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle 1980-82, 1985-98
Chair, Jewish Studies Program, 1985-1994. Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought, Washington University in St. Louis 1998-present
Director, Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies 1998-2004
Chair, Dept. of History 2004-present
Education
Harvard University AB 1973, AM 1975, PhD 1981
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