Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,1 (1998) 55-68
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Antisemitism Public opinion
;
Holocaust denial
;
Jews Persecutions 20th century
;
History
Abstract:
Examines results of a survey conducted in March 1995 in Hungary based on interviews with 1,500 people, carried out by the Gallup/Hungary Public Opinion Research Institute. The survey aimed to examine the breadth, strength, content, and variety of antisemitic prejudice in Hungary and to determine what Hungarians felt about the Holocaust and their responsibility for the persecution of Jews during World War II. The questions were grouped in three clusters: "Holocaust denial", "acceptance of responsibility", and "legitimization of forgetting". Results show that Holocaust denial arises from the lower strata of the social hierarchy; responsibility for persecution is rejected by certain urban groups stemming from families of high social status; and forgetting is supported by groups of low social status. Contends that in Hungary Holocaust denial is not a form of symbolic expression of antisemitism, as it is in the West; it stems mainly from a uniquely Eastern European development of historical knowledge and information. Pp. 64-68 contain tables showing correlation of the responses with age, sex, education, social status, antisemitism, etc.
DOI:
10.1080/13501679808577870
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