Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Danubian Historical Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
1,2 (1987) 47-54
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Jewish physicians History 20th century
;
Jewish lawyers History
Abstract:
Contrasts antisemitism in the legal and medical professions from 1920 to 1945. The National Union of Hungarian Doctors advocated anti-Jewish measures in the Numerus Clausus Law of 1920 and demanded exclusion of Jews from the national health care system. Its membership included 80% of the non-Jewish doctors; it became the strongest lobby for antisemitic legislation. In the late 1930s it demanded the withdrawal of all Jewish doctors' licenses and, after Hungary entered the war, that Jewish doctors be sent to forced labor. In contrast, the Chamber of Hungarian Lawyers resisted takeover by the racist National Union of Hungarian Lawyers (which had only 650 members), and mitigated discrimination by intervening on behalf of Jewish lawyers, and even by falsifying records. Explains this phenomenon by the high level of social and economic integration of Jewish lawyers and a strong liberal political tradition.
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