Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
36,2 (2008) 115-153
Keywords:
Tószegi, Albert
;
Gráner, Albert
;
Jews History 1918-1945
;
Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Fonyod (Hungary)
Abstract:
Examines an incident which took place in the village of Fonyód, central Hungary, in 1919 at the peak of the "White Terror" under conditions of anti-communist and antisemitic hysteria. Three affluent Jews, Tószegi, Gráner, and Hamburger, were hanged by Horthy's army on the suspicion that they had supported the communist revolution some months earlier; the military executed them in disregard of Horthy's order to release them. The "verdicts" against them were based on popular rumors, not on facts; nobody in Fonyód wondered why wealthy and conservative individuals would cast their lot with communists. Examines the main popular anti-Jewish stereotypes of the time: the Jew as a communist and as a traitor or conspirator, which persevered until World War II. Notes that Horthy behaved in the Tószegi Affair just like he did in 1944; he intervened in defense of assimilated and conservative Jews (Fonyód victims in 1919, Budapest Jews in 1944), but not for unassimilated Jews.
Note:
In Hebrew:.
,
"יד ושם; קובץ מחקרים" לו,2 (תשסט) 97-129
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