Language:
English
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
The Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1986) 73-131
Keywords:
Jews History 1945-
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Jewish communists
Abstract:
Examines social and psychological factors which led to the integration of some Hungarian Jews - mainly young people, ex-employees and workers - in the communist regime after the war. Communism offered Jews economic and social mobility, and the Jews were considered politically reliable. Despite the stereotype of "Judeo-Bolshevism", Jews took advantage of these opportunities. Their willingness to adopt an alien ideology, and to take part in totalitarian violence opposed to traditional Jewish and bourgeois values, reflected the breakdown of moral controls and traditional Jewish-Gentile relationships due to the events of the Holocaust. However, many Jews became disillusioned after 1956. Also comments on the Jews' attitudes toward the Rákosi regime and the links between the stereotype of Jewish-communism and manifestations of antisemitism.
Note:
Abridged from the Hungarian article which appeared as "Szociológiai kisérlet a magyar zsidóság 1945 és 1956 közötti helyzetének elemzésére" in "Zsidóság az 1945 utáni Magyarorszagón" (1984) 37-180.
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