Language:
English
Year of publication:
1983
Titel der Quelle:
Telos; a Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought
Angaben zur Quelle:
58 (1983-1984) 55-74
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Jews History 1945-
Abstract:
The social and occupational factors which defined the place of the Jews in prewar Hungarian society have largely disappeared, and those Jews remaining in Hungary seek to assimilate. Nevertheless, a separate Jewish and non-Jewish consciousness continues to exist because of differing reactions to the "liberation" of Hungary in 1945 and to the communist regime. A small number of Jews supported the regime in order to solve their own identity problems. Many others suffered under communism, but there were stereotypes which developed identifying Jews with the communists which led to persistent antisemitism. In the present, some advocates of cultural nationalism reject the Jews as an "alien element" in Hungarian society.
Note:
Appeared also in "The Holocaust in Hungary; Forty Years Later" (1985) 205-232. Appeared in Hungarian as "A zsidókérdés a mai magyar társadalomban" in "Zsidóság az 1945 utáni Magyarországon" (1984) 4-35; in. French as "La question juive dans la Hongrie contemporaine" in "Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales" 56 (1985) 45-57; and in German as "Die Judenfrage in zeitgenössischen Ungarn" in "Babylon" 3 (1988) 42-64.
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