Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Judaica
Angaben zur Quelle:
18 (2010) 229-241
Keywords:
Jászi, Oszkár,
;
Pap, Karoly,
;
Zsolt, Béla,
;
Jews History 1800-2000
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews Cultural assimilation
Abstract:
A paper delivered at a conference held in Cluj-Napoca, October 2009.
Abstract:
Reflects on the failure of the seemingly successful assimilation of Jews in Hungary. After the Trianon treaty of 1920, Hungarians felt cheated and blamed the Jews, who were no longer regarded as part of the Hungarian nation. Various trends of antisemitism sprang up and co-existed in interwar Hungary: traditional Christian, racist, anti-communist, and a vulgar strain of Jew-hatred. Gives examples of assimilated Jewish intellectuals who tried to be part of the Hungarian nation, but failed: the converted Jew Oszkár Jászi, who emigrated in 1919; Károly Pap, who perished in Buchenwald; and Béla Zsolt, who survived the Holocaust by chance.
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