Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Modern History
Angaben zur Quelle:
80,1 (2008) 55-80
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
Abstract:
Traces the scapegoating of Jews as enemies of Hungary from the late 19th century through World War I. Focuses on the postwar period, when the Jews were identified, e.g. by Bishop Ottokár Prohászka, as dangerous representatives of a threat, like that of the medieval Tartars, to European Christianity, whose culture Hungary was seen to epitomize. Catholic Hungary was touted as the potential savior against transnational "Judeo-Bolshevism". Opposition to Jews rallied both conservative and radical nationalists around Catholic rhetoric against the perceived Jewish threat to Hungary, which soon adopted measures such as anti-Jewish laws to protect the nation and, thereby, Europe.
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