In this unusual and important new work, Miroslav Vanek interviews twelve experts on oral history ...

This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how ...

Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read, yet incomplete ...

Linguistic contact between Romani and Spanish, Catalan and other languages of the Iberian Peninsu...

A re-examination of Western interpretations-and distortions-of Indian religious traditions. In ...

Though the Czech Republic is a young nation, the areas within and just outside its modern borders...

On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offeri...

This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, synoptic, and easy-to-grasp account of the state...

Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and spent decades working at a...

Springtide A chaffinch in a tree of cherry sings merrily spring's introit. Its blazing bobble...

The legal system of the present-day Czech Republic cannot be understood without sufficient knowle...

In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian ...