本书考察了布拉格在一个半世纪中的犹太社区记忆，从它作为神圣罗马帝国的大都会首都（1583-1611）的地位，到17世纪后期的天主教改革和必胜主义，再到18世纪初与启蒙运动相遇的前夕。雷切尔·格林布拉特（Rachel Greenblatt）通过社区自身故事的视角来探讨这个问题——这些故事是从广泛的文件、墓碑和布拉格犹太人记录历史的其他珍贵物品的近距离阅读中发现的。在这些材料的基础上，格林布拉特展示了这个社区的成员如何为后代保存他们对社区内其他人以及他们经历的事件的记忆。
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To Tell Their Children: Jewish Communal Memory in Early Modern Prague
This book offers an examination of Jewish communal memory in Prague in the century and a half stretching from its position as cosmopolitan capital of the Holy Roman Empire (1583-1611) through Catholic reform and triumphalism in the later seventeenth century, to the eve of its encounter with Enlightenment in the early eighteenth. Rachel Greenblatt approaches the subject through the lens of the community’s own stories―stories recovered from close readings of a wide range of documents as well as from gravestones and other treasured objects in which Prague’s Jews recorded their history. On the basis of this material, Greenblatt shows how members of this community sought to preserve for future generations their memories of others within the community and the events that they experienced.
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