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Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the Czechoslovak exiles during and after the war years, and of the implementation of the plans in liberated Czechoslovakia after 1945.

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List of Tables List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Exiles and the Situation in Nazi Europe 2. The Meaning of Loyalty: The Exiles and the Jews, 1939-41 3. The Holocaust 4. The Jewish Minority and Post-War Czechoslovakia 5. Defending the Democratic ´Myth´ Conclusion: Beyond Idealization and Condemnation Bibliography

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"Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-48 offers a valuable corrective to the complacent view that Czechoslovakia was somehow immune from anti-Semitism. It simultaneously highlights the extent to which Czech anti-Semitism tended to be upstaged by Czech German rivalry. This important contribution will be of interest to students of nationalism, Czechoslovak politics and Jewish history alike." - The Journal of the Historical Association

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Jan Lání?ek works as Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish History at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He received a PhD from the University of Southampton and in 2011-12 worked as a Prins Foundation Postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York.

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