Quotas
The "Jewish Question" and Higher Education in Central Europe, 1880-1945
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2024
426 pages
978-1-80539-529-4 (ISBN)
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In 1920, the Hungarian parliament introduced a Jewish quota for university admissions, making Hungary the first country in Europe to pass antisemitic legislation following World War I. Quotas explores the ideologies and practices of quota regimes and the ways quotas have been justified, implemented, challenged, and remembered from the late nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century. In particular, the volume focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, with chapters covering the origins of quotas, the moral, legal, and political arguments developed by their supporters and opponents, and the social and personal impact of these attempts to limit access to higher education.
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Michael L. Miller | Judith Szapor
Quotas
The "Jewish Question" and Higher Education in Central Europe, 1880-1945
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Michael L. Miller is head of the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. He is the author of Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation (2011) and other works on Habsburg and Habsburg-Jewish history. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled "Manovill: A Tale of Two Hungarys."
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Tables
- Introduction - Antisemitic Arithmetic
- Part I - Anti-Jewish Quotas in Central Europe: Historical Roots
- Chapter 1 - Quotas and the "Jewish Question" in Imperial Austria
- Chapter 2 - The (Great) Numbers Game: Demographic Anxieties and Quotas in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Romania and the Global Antisemitic Imaginary
- Chapter 3 - The Prehistory of the Hungarian Numerus Clausus Law: Political Antisemitism in Hungary, 1895-1914
- Chapter 4 - Jews in the Hungarian Medical Profession, 1782-1947
- Part II - Down by Law: The Numerus Clausus in Hungary
- Chapter 5 - Mária M. Kovács, the Historian
- Chapter 6 - The Hungarian Numerus Clausus: Ideology, Apology, and History, 1919-45
- Chapter 7 - From Numerus Clausus to Numerus Nullus
- Part III - The Politics of Exclusion in Central Europe
- Chapter 8 - Antisemitic Pacts: Student Fraternities and the Exclusion of Jews at Austrian Universities in the Interwar Period
- Chapter 9 - From Numerus Clausus Demands to Antisemitic Laws: Student Antisemitism in Romania, 1888-1938
- Chapter 10 - Anti-Jewish Quotas in Interwar Poland: Toward a Reconsideration of the Appeal of Fascism in East Central Europe
- Chapter 11 - "Troublesome Foreigners": The Protests against Jewish Students at Universities in Vienna, Bratislava, and Brno, and the Dispute over Quotas in Czechoslovakia, 1929-32
- Part IV - Jewish Responses, Jewish Fates
- Chapter 12 - Next Year in Brno? Brno's Significance for Hungarian Jews in the Age of the Numerus Clausus and Beyond
- Chapter 13 - "You Can Become Anything, except a Pediatrician": Exploring the Gendered Impact of Hungary's Numerus Clausus Law
- Chapter 14 - A Foreign Policy Fiasco? Reactions to the Hungarian Numerus Clausus in Weimar Berlin
- Afterword - The Enduring Legacy of Quotas
- Index
