1st Edition
The Holocaust in Hungary Seventy Years Later
330 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
Foreword Randolph L. Braham and András Kovács I. INTRODUCTION Hungarian Intentionalism: New Directions in the Historiography of the Hungarian Holocaust András Kovács II. THE PATH TO THE HOLOCAUST The Antisemitism of István Bethlen and Jewish Policy in the Horthy Era Ignác Romsics, The Numerus Clausus and the Anti-Jewish Laws Mária M. Kovács, 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 László Csosz Master Plan? The Decision-Making Process behind the Deportations Krisztián Ungváry The Holocaust in Transylvania Zoltán Tibori Szabó The Sociology of Survival: The Presence of the Budapest Jewish Population Groups of 1941 in the 1945 Budapest Population Péter Tibor, Nagy Across the Iron Curtain—Hungarian Jewish Refugees in Austria, 1945–49: The Letters to Enns Rebekah Klein-Pejšová IV. THE MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST Hungarian Memory of the Hungarian Holocaust Gábor Gyáni, Global and Local Holocaust Remembrance Monika Kovács, 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.
Biography
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.
András Kovács is Professor at the Nationalism Studies Department and Academic Director of Jewish Studies at the Central European University.
