RE: [Cz-L]FW: “The tobacco monopoly and the rise of the modern Jewish intellectual in the Habsburg Monarchy". CZ-related?

Everyone called "Trafikant" was a beneficiary of the Habsburg tobacco monopoly.

Charles Polák
mailto:charles.polak_at_bbc.co.uk

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Subject: [Cz-L]FW: “The tobacco monopoly and the rise of the modern Jewish intellectual in the Habsburg Monarchy". CZ-related?

To members in DC-Va-Md area. This sounds interesting. Unfortunately I am teaching. If you can attend, looks promising.

The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies

University of Maryland, College Park
presents

“The tobacco monopoly and the rise of the modern Jewish intellectual in the Habsburg Monarchy”

A lecture by

Louise Hecht
Fulbright Research Fellow
University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
12:00 – 2:00 PM
0142 Holzapfel Hall (JWST Seminar Room)

The talk explores the link between the organization of the tobacco
monopoly by Jewish leaseholders and their network of Jewish
subcontractors during the eighteenth century with the rise of modern and
secular intellectual elite in the nineteenth century. It contests the
traditional approach of intellectual history that would look at the first
generation of modern Jewish intellectuals as dropouts or graduates from
traditional institutions of higher Jewish learning (Yeshivot).

Dr. Louise Hecht is currently a Fulbright research fellow at the Dept. of
Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania. She has
been a senior lecturer in Jewish history at the Kurt-and-Ursula-Schubert
Center for Jewish Studies at Palacký University, Olomouc, CZ since 2007.
She received her PhD in 2002 at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and won
the 2003 Pridan Prize for the best dissertation in Jewish history at the
Hebrew University. Her publications include: Ein jüdischer Aufklärer in
Böhmen: Der Pädagoge und Reformer Peter Beer (1758-1838), Köln: Böhlau,
2008 (ed.) and Jewish Enlightenment in the Czech Lands in a European
Perspective, guest-edited issue of Jewish Culture and History 13, vols.
2-3 (2012).

For more information please visit:
www.jewishstudies.umd.edu or call 301-405-4975

Channa

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