The Holocaust in Hungary
Seventy Years Later
Published on 1. April 2016
Book
Hardback
330 pages
978-963-386-147-9 (ISBN)
Description
According to most historians, the Holocaust in Hungary represented a unique chapter in the singular history of what the Nazis termed as the "Final Solution" of the "Jewish question" in Europe. More than seventy years after the Shoah, the origins and prehistory as well as the implementation and aftermath of the genocide still provide ample ground for scholarship. In fact, Hungarian historians began to seriously deal with these questions only after the 1980s. Since then, however, a consistently active and productive debate has been waged about the history and interpretation of the Holocaust in Hungary and with the passage of time, more and more questions have been raised in connection with its memorialization. This volume includes twelve selected scholarly papers thematically organized under four headings: 1. The newest trends in the study of the Holocaust in Hungary. 2. The anti-Jewish policies of Hungary during the interwar period 3. The Holocaust era in Hungary 4. National and international aspects of Holocaust remembrance. The studies reflect on the anti-Jewish atmosphere in Hungary during the interwar period; analyze the decision-making process that led to the deportations, and the options left open to the Hungarian government. They also provide a detailed presentation of the Holocaust in Transylvania and describe the experience of Hungarian Jewish refugees in Austria after the end of the war.
Reviews / Votes
"The book, a volume of essays edited by Randolph L. Braham and Andras Kovacs, gives an excellent introduction into the state of the art in Hungarian Holocaust research seventy years after the events. Two main questions stand out: how to understand and come to terms with the complicity of non-Jewish Hungarians and the Hungarian state on the level of nationwide history politics, and how to grasp the relationship between the Holocaust and earlier periods in Hungarian Jewish history. In other words, was the catastrophic fate of Hungarian Jewry presaged by a lingering and deep-rooted antisemitism in Hungarian society, or was it, as some Hungarian Jewish spokespeople would still argue in the wake of the war, an unprecedented and entirely unexpected occurrence that was out of step not just with Jewish life in Hungary, but with Hungarian society as a whole? This debate-also known as the intentionalist versus the functionalist dimensions of the Holocaust-informs the different approaches..."More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Budapest
Hungary
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-963-386-147-9 (9789633861479)
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04/2016
Central European University Press
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Persons
Randolph L. Braham is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the City College, Director of the Institute for Holocaust Studies at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, and Director of the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the Graduate Center.
Andras Kovacs is Professor at the Nationalism Studies Department and Academic Director of Jewish Studies at the Central European University.
Andras Kovacs is Professor at the Nationalism Studies Department and Academic Director of Jewish Studies at the Central European University.
Content
Foreword Randolph L. Braham and Andras Kovacs I. INTRODUCTION Hungarian Intentionalism: New Directions in the Historiography of the Hungarian Holocaust Andras Kovacs II. THE PATH TO THE HOLOCAUST The Antisemitism of Istvan Bethlen and Jewish Policy in the Horthy Era Ignac Romsics, The Numerus Clausus and the Anti-Jewish Laws Maria M. Kovacs, The Coming of the Shoah in Public Discourse, State Policies and Social Realities: An Essay on Continuities of the "Jewish Question" in Hungary since the "Golden Age" Victor Karady III. THE AGE OF PERSECUTION The Origins of the Military Labor Service System in Hungary Laszlo Csosz Master Plan? The Decision-Making Process behind the Deportations Krisztian Ungvary The Holocaust in Transylvania Zoltan Tibori Szabo The Sociology of Survival: The Presence of the Budapest Jewish Population Groups of 1941 in the 1945 Budapest Population Peter Tibor, Nagy Across the Iron Curtain-Hungarian Jewish Refugees in Austria, 1945-49: The Letters to Enns Rebekah Klein-Pejsova IV. THE MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST Hungarian Memory of the Hungarian Holocaust Gabor Gyani, Global and Local Holocaust Remembrance Monika Kovacs, Digitalized Memories of the Holocaust in Hungary in the Visual History Archive Andrea Peto, Hungary: The Assault on the Historical Memory of the Holocaust Randolph L. Braham, List of Contributors, Index.