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• The Jews in Denmark on the Eve of the 'Judenaktion'
• The 'Judenaktion'
• Ghetto Theresienstadt and the Arrival of the Danish Transports
• Housing and Work for Adults and Children
• Relationships Inside and Outside the National Group
• Everyday Life
• Despair, Disease and Death
• Shipments of Parcels
• Danish Parcels Seen from the Ghetto
• The Visit of the International Delegation, June 23, 1944
• After the Visit
• Witnessing the Transports
• The Last Months in Theresienstadt
• Life After the Ghetto.

"Based on never previously explored personal accounts and archival documentation, this book examines life and death in the Theresienstadt ghetto, seen through the eyes of the Jewish victims from Denmark. The experience of the 470 men, women, and children that were deported to the ghetto has seldom been the object of scholarly interest. Offering a multi-perspective and international approach that places the case of Denmark into the broader Jewish experience during the Holocaust, this book is invaluable for researchers of Jewish studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, and the history of modern Denmark"-- Provided by publisher.

• AcknowledgmentsVII List of FiguresIX Introduction: Why Czechs and Turks?
• 1 The Return of the "Terrible Turk"
• 1 The Turkish Wars and Czech Variations on the Turkish Theme
• 2 "The Turk" as a Proxy
• 3 The Oppressors of Our Slavic Brethren
• 4 The Turkish Race
• 5 The Longevity of Stereotypes
• 6 Conclusion
• 2 Czechs Abroad
• 1 Getting Ready to Travel
• 2 Entering the Orient
• 3 Backward or Exotic?
• 4 Turkish Men (To Say Nothing of the Dogs)
• 5 Women
• 6 The Turks and Others
• 7 Conclusion
• 3 Civilizing the Slavic Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina
• 1 What's in a Name?
• 2 The Orient at One's Doorstep (Safe Even for Ladies)
• 3 Occupation as Liberation
• 4 Czech Colonial Ambitions
• 5 Conclusion
• 4 "Our Mission in Oriental Studies"
• 1 The Founding Fathers of Czech Oriental Studies
• 2 Oriental Studies "as Translation"
• 3 Finding a Voice of Their Own
• 4 Scholars and Czech Society
• 5 Conclusion
• Conclusion: The New Republics
• Bibliography Index.
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In "The Turk" in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923), Jitka Maleckova describes Czechs' views of the Turks in the last half century of the existence of the Ottoman Empire and how they were influenced by ideas and trends in other countries, including the European fascination with the Orient, images of "the Turk, " contemporary scholarship, and racial theories. The Czechs were not free from colonial ambitions either, as their attitude to Bosnia-Herzegovina demonstrates, but their viewpoint was different from that found in imperial states and among the peoples who had experienced Ottoman rule. The book convincingly shows that the Czechs mainly viewed the Turks through the lenses of nationalism and Pan-Slavism - in solidarity with the Slavs fighting against Ottoman rule.
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• Un berceau bucolique et musicien
• Il se cherche...
• Les grands changements
• Les ennemis grands amis
• Invitations en Angleterre - Vysoka
• L'équipée américaine
• La dernière étape.

"Avec son aîné Bedrich Smetana, le Bohémien Antonin Dvoràk (1841-1904) est devenu une figure musicale de l'indépendance tchèque par rapport à l'empire autrichien. Mais si son patriotisme reste modéré et 1 si sa création s'inspire souvent du folklore national, elle présente finalement une image plus universelle de la musique. Au-delà de sa Neuvième - et parfois trop rabachée -Symphonie du Nouveau Monde, fruit d'un séjour américain de 3 ans, Dvofàk a écrit plusieurs autres symphonies de grande valeur, un impressionnant corpus de musique de chambre, de la musique pour piano, trois beaux concertos, des mélodies, des cantates et de la musique sacrée de grande qualité, sans oublier plusieurs opéras (dont Rusalka avec sa désormais célèbre Chanson à la lune). Bien plus que l'image d'un homme éminemment sympathique, Dvoràk a laissé une musique qui continue de répandre avec générosité la force et l'optimisme. Cet ouvrage inédit présente une figure méconnue de la musique "nationaliste" de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle avec de nombreux commentaires musicaux, complétés d'annexes pratiques (tableau synoptique, catalogue des oeuvres, bibliographie, discographie, ...)."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction
• Rivers In Czech Republic
• Role of the Water in the Landscape
• Small Water Reservoirs, Ponds and Wetlands Restoration at the Abandoned Pond Areas
• Small Bodies of Water which Have Disappeared from the Czech Landscape and the Possibility of Restoring them
• Protection of Water Resources
• Groudwater Flow Problems and Their Modelling
• Hydrodynamical Modelling in Channel - Case study
• Modelling of Outflow - Case study
• Hydrological Reclamations Iin the Anthropogenically Affected Landscape of Northern Bohemia
• Modelling of the Water-Retention Capacity of the Landscape
• Floodplain Forests
• Key Forest Ecosystems for Maintaining and Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Alluvial Landscape
• Agrotechnology as Key Factor of Effective Use of Water on Arable Land
• Ecosystem Services and Disservices of Watercourses and Water Areas
• Water Resources Management Planning
• Technical and Economic Evaluation of River Navigation
• Water Balance and Phase of Hydrocycle Dynamics
• Water in the Landscape from Limnological and Engineering Point of View
• Conclusions and Recommendations.

This book gathers technical and scientific contributions from leading researchers, academics, and lecturers, focusing on water management, water pollution and water structures in the Czech Republic. It discusses a variety of water resources management issues, from stormwater management in urban areas, water quantity, hydraulics structures and hydrodynamic modeling, to flood protection, presenting state-of-the-art developments for addressing a range of problems. Edited and authored by pioneers in the field who have been at the cutting edge of water management development in the Czech Republic, this book is of interest to environmental professionals, including scientists and policymakers both in the Czech Republic and around the globe.

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• Chapter 1 Russia as a Czech Security Enigma: Introductory RemarksJan Holzer and Miroslav Mares
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• Chapter 2 The Hybrid Campaign Concept and Contemporary Czech-Russian Relations Miroslav Mares, Jan Holzer and Tomas Smid
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• Chapter 3: Russia as Viewed by the Main Czech Political ActorsJan Holzer, Martin Jirusek and Petra Kuchynkova
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• Chapter 4: The Big Partner with a Small Turnover: Czech-Russian Economic Relations and their DynamicsLucie Coufalova and Libor Zidek
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• Chapter 5: Business as usual or geopolitical games? Russian activities in energy sector of the Czech RepublicMartin Jirusek, Petra Kuchynkova, Tomas Vlcek
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• Chapter 6: The Russian and North Caucasus Diaspora in the Czech Republic:Between Loyalty, Crime and ExtremismMiroslav Mares and Tomas Smid
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• Chapter 7: Slavonic Brothers? Current Language, Literature and Cultural Interaction between Russia and the Czech Republic in Light of the Security IssueJiri Gazda and Josef Saur
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• Chapter 8: Czech Images of Russian History as a Societal Security IssuePavel Bocek, Jan Holzer and Radomir Vlcek
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• Chapter 9: In the shadow of Russia: the Czech Republic as a small Central European stateJan Holzer and Miroslav Mares .
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This volume examines the future directions of Czech international policy through an interdisciplinary analysis of both historical and current Russian-Czech relations. It analyses Czech relations with Russia based on their historical heritage underpinned by the superpower's behaviour and interests in the Central European region. The book's central theme is the current Czech security dilemma in which the Czech political community perceives Russia as a security threat, but also would prefer to cooperate with Russia to ensure its security. The authors give a full overview and explanation of Czech-Russian relations, while also explaining the current dilemmas within the Czech Republic's political, cultural and economic community.
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• Introduction
• Architecture of the Strasbourg System of Human Rights
• The Role of Domestic Courts in the Strasbourg System
• Navigating the Field of Judicial Compliance, Effectiveness, Implementation and Judicial Treatment of International Law
• Research Design
• How to Study Judicial Implementation : A Prologue to the Case Study on Czechia
• The Supreme Court : The Story of a (Post)communist Cinderella
• The Supreme Administrative Court : A New Kid on the Block
• The Czech Constitutional Court
• Judicial Treatment Patterns : More Complicated than They Seem
• Beyond Judicial Compliance : Domestic Courts in the ECHR Regime.

"The European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") suffers from the burgeoning caseload and challenges to its authority. This two-pronged crisis undermines the ECtHR's legitimacy and consequently the functioning of the whole European human rights regime. Domestic courts can serve as welcome allies of the Strasbourg Court. They have a potential to diffuse Convention norms domestically, and therefore prevent and filter many potential human rights violations. Yet, we know very little about how in fact domestic courts actually treat the Strasbourg Court's rulings. This book brings unique empirical findings on how often, how and with what consequences domestic judges work with the ECtHR's case law. It moves beyond the narrow concept of compliance and develops a new three-level methodology for analysing the role played by domestic courts in the implementation of ECtHR case law. Moreover, using the example of Czechia, it shifts the attention from Western countries to a more volatile Central and Eastern European region, which has recently witnessed democratic backsliding and backlash against international checks on human rights and the rule of law standards. Looking at a wider social and legal context, this book identifies factors helping transitional countries to adapt to regional human rights regimes"-- Provided by publisher.

This country policy profile on education in the Czech Republic is part of the Education Policy Outlook series. Building on the first policy profile for the Czech Republic (2013), it offers a concise analysis of where the education system stands today in terms of strengths, challenges and ongoing policy efforts, and how this compares to other systems. The profile brings together over a decade’s worth of policy analysis by the Education Policy Outlook, as well as the latest OECD data, relevant thematic and country-specific work and other international and national evidence. It also offers analysis of the Czech education system’s initial responses to the COVID-19 crisis and provides insight into approaches to building greater responsiveness and resilience for the future

• Introduction : a spacetime interval
• First and second place
• The speed of light
• Anti-Prague
• Einstein positive and Einstein negative
• The hidden Kepler
• Out of Josefov
• From revolution to normalization
• Conclusion : Princeton, Tel Aviv, Prague

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague In the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics. Though he intended to make Prague his home, he lived there for just sixteen months, an interlude that his biographies typically dismiss as a brief and inconsequential episode. Einstein in Bohemia is a spellbinding portrait of the city that touched Einstein's life in unexpected ways-and of the gifted young scientist who left his mark on the science, literature, and politics of Prague. Michael Gordin's narrative is a masterfully crafted account of a person encountering a particular place at a specific moment in time. Despite being heir to almost a millennium of history, Einstein's Prague was a relatively marginal city within the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Empire. Yet Prague, its history, and its multifaceted culture changed the trajectories of Einstein's personal and scientific life. It was here that his marriage unraveled, where he first began thinking seriously about his Jewish identity, and where he embarked on the project of general relativity. Prague was also where he formed lasting friendships with novelist Max Brod, Zionist intellectual Hugo Bergmann, physicist Philipp Frank, and other important figures. Einstein in Bohemia sheds light on this transformative period of Einstein's life and career, and brings vividly to life a beguiling city in the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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• Introduction : a spacetime interval
• First and second place
• The speed of light
• Anti-Prague
• Einstein positive and Einstein negative
• The hidden Kepler
• Out of Josefov
• From revolution to normalization
• Conclusion : Princeton, Tel Aviv, Prague

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague In the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, the capital of Bohemia, where he accepted a post as a professor of theoretical physics. Though he intended to make Prague his home, he lived there for just sixteen months, an interlude that his biographies typically dismiss as a brief and inconsequential episode. Einstein in Bohemia is a spellbinding portrait of the city that touched Einstein's life in unexpected ways-and of the gifted young scientist who left his mark on the science, literature, and politics of Prague. Michael Gordin's narrative is a masterfully crafted account of a person encountering a particular place at a specific moment in time. Despite being heir to almost a millennium of history, Einstein's Prague was a relatively marginal city within the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Empire. Yet Prague, its history, and its multifaceted culture changed the trajectories of Einstein's personal and scientific life. It was here that his marriage unraveled, where he first began thinking seriously about his Jewish identity, and where he embarked on the project of general relativity. Prague was also where he formed lasting friendships with novelist Max Brod, Zionist intellectual Hugo Bergmann, physicist Philipp Frank, and other important figures. Einstein in Bohemia sheds light on this transformative period of Einstein's life and career, and brings vividly to life a beguiling city in the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Das Leben des Rabbiners Emil Davidovič (1912–1986) erzählt die Geschichte eines in einer streng orthodoxen Familie der Karpatoukraine geborenen Juden, der Verfolgung und Konzentrationslager überlebte. Der vielsprachig aufgewachsene Davidovič besuchte u.a. die berühmte Jeschiwa harama in Bratislava (Pressburg) und studierte unter Leo Baeck und Ismar Elbogen in Berlin sowie in Brünn, Budapest und Wien. 1944 wurde er mit seiner gesamten Familie nach Auschwitz deportiert, überlebte und emigrierte mit seiner Frau Cilli in die Tschechoslowakei. Auch hier sah er sich Anfeindungen ausgesetzt. Nach unzähligen Schwierigkeiten ist es ihm gelungen, nach Israel zu entkommen, um wenig später und bis zu seinem Lebensende als Rabbiner in Dortmund, im Land der Täter, jüdisches Leben im Nachkriegsdeutschland neu gedeihen zu lassen. Vera Trnka erzählt aus seinem Leben mithilfe persönlicher Erinnerungen ihrer Schulfreundin Alice, der Tochter Davidovičs

Ce rapport est une édition spéciale du Tableau de bord de l’OCDE sur le financement des PME et des entrepreneurs, publication phare de l’OCDE. Il examine en détail les conséquences du COVID-19 sur l’accès des PME au financement, ainsi que les mesures prises en conséquence par les pouvoirs publics. Il apparaît qu’avant la crise, les conditions de financement étaient globalement favorables pour les PME et les entrepreneurs, qui bénéficiaient de faibles taux d’intérêt, de critères accommodants d’octroi des crédits et d’une offre de plus en plus diversifiée d’instruments de financement. Mais la crise du COVID‑19 a profondément bouleversé l’accès des PME au financement. Plus particulièrement, l’effondrement brutal du chiffre d’affaires des entreprises a provoqué de graves pénuries de liquidités qui ont mis en danger la survie de bon nombre d’entreprises viables. Ce rapport fait état d’une augmentation de la demande de prêts bancaires au cours du premier semestre de 2020, et d’une stabilité de l’offre de crédit grâce à l’action des pouvoirs publics. Parallèlement, on a observé un recul d’autres sources de financement, en particulier l’apport de fonds propres au stade du démarrage. Le rapport réunit des données sur le périmètre et l’ampleur des mesures prises par les gouvernements dans le monde, et en précise les principales caractéristiques. Il décrit les principaux enjeux stratégiques du financement des PME qui se poseront au cours des prochaines phases de la pandémie ; il s’agira en effet d’éviter le surendettement des PME, de promouvoir une gamme diversifiée d’instruments de financement, de stimuler la création d’entreprises et de renforcer la résilience des PME par des mesures structurelles

• Introduction
• Hate speech regulation in democracy
• Historical, political and constitutional context of the Czech and Slovak republics
• The United Nations' treaty response to regulation of hate speech
• European responses to hate speech regulation
• International soft law and the regulation of hate speech
• Dawn of the post-communist regulation of hate speech
• Post-communist penal hate speech regulation
• General conclusion

Hate Speech and Human Rights. Democracies need to understand these terms to properly adapt their legal frameworks. Regulation of hate speech exposes underlining and sometimes invisible societal values such as security and public order, equality and non-discrimination, human dignity, and other democratic vital interests. The spread of hatred and hate speech has intensified in many corners of the world over the last decade and its regulation presents a conundrum for many democracies. This book presents a three-prong theory describing three different but complementary models of hate speech regulation which allows stakeholders to better address this phenomenon. It examines international and national legal frameworks and related case law as well as pertinent scholarly literature review to highlight this development. After a period of an absence of free speech during communism, post-communist democracies have sought to build a framework for the exercise of free speech while protecting public goods such as liberty, equality and human dignity. The three-prong theory is applied to identify public goods and values underlining the regulation of hate speech in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, two countries that share a political, sociological, and legal history, as an example of the differing approaches to hate speech regulation in post-communist societies due to divergent social values, despite identical legal frameworks. This book will be of great interest to scholars of human rights law, lawyers, judges, government, NGOs, media and anyone who would like to understand values that underpin hate speech regulations which reflect values that society cherishes the most.
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The COVID-19 crisis has had a profound impact on SME access to finance. In particular, the sudden drop in revenues created acute liquidity shortages, threatening the survival of many viable businesses. The report documents an increase in demand for bank lending in the first half of 2020, and a steady supply of credit thanks to government interventions. On the other hand, other sources of finance declined, in particular early-stage equity. This paper, a special edition of Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs, focuses on the impacts of COVID-19 on SME access to finance, along with government policy responses. It reveals that the pre-crisis financing environment was broadly favourable for SMEs and entrepreneurs, who benefited from low interest rates, loose credit standards and an increasingly diverse offer of financing instruments. It documents the unprecedented scope and scale of the policy responses undertaken by governments world-wide, and details their key characteristics, and outlines the principal issues and policy challenges for the next phases of the pandemic, such as the over-indebtedness of SMEs and the need to continue to foster a diverse range of financing instruments for SMEs

• Introduction: The Well-Known, Poorly Understood Ghetto
• 1. "The Overorganized Ghetto" Administering Terezin
• 2. A Society Based on Inequality
• 3. The Age of Pearl Barley: Food and Hunger
• 4. Medicine and Illness
• 5. Cultural Life: Leisure Time Activities
• 6. Transports to the East Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography.
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Terezin, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezin was the last ghetto to be liberated, one day after the end of World War II. The Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Rather than depict the prison society which existed within the ghetto as an exceptional one, unique in kind and not understandable by normal analytical methods, Anna Hajkova argues that such prison societies that developed during the Holocaust are best understood as simply other instances of the societies human beings create under normal circumstances. Challenging conventional claims of Holocaust exceptionalism, Hajkova insists instead that we ought to view the Holocaust with the same analytical tools as other historical events. The prison society of Terezin produced its own social hierarchies under which seemingly small differences among prisoners (of age, ethnicity, or previous occupation) could determine whether one ultimately lived or died. During the three and a half years of the camp's existence, prisoners created their own culture and habits, bonded, fell in love, and forged new families. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages and on empathetic reading of victim testimonies, The Last Ghetto is a transnational, cultural, social, gender, and organizational history of Terezin, revealing how human society works in extremis and highlighting the key issues of responsibility, agency and its boundaries, and belonging.
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