1st Edition
The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation The 1920 Numerus Clausus Law in Hungary
By Mária M. Kovács
Copyright 2024
264 Pages
by
Central European University Press
The Nazi 1933 Civil Service Law and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws are often considered the first anti-Jewish decrees in interwar Europe. Mária M. Kovács convincingly argues that Hungary’s numerus clausus law of 1920, which introduced a Jewish quota at Hungary’s institutions of higher learning, was, in fact, interwar Europe’s first antisemitic law. By defining—and... Read more
Foreword to the English Translation, Foreword, Introduction, Chapter 1: The Genesis of the Law, Chapter 2: The First Decade of the Numerus Clausus and the Racial Clause, Chapter 3: The Amendment of the Numerus Clausus Law and the Restoration of the Explicit Jewish Quota, Chronology, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Mária M. Kovács (1953-2020) was a professor of Nationalism Studies at Central European University and a highly accomplished scholar of modern European history, Jewish studies and religious studies.
