Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Culture and History
Angaben zur Quelle:
21,2 (2020) 131-155
Keywords:
Hungarian literature Jewish authors 20th century
;
History and criticism
;
Jewish authors History 20th century
;
Jews Identity 20th century
;
History
;
Judaism and secularism
;
Budapest (Hungary) In literature
Abstract:
The article uncovers the voices of secular Jewish writers who wrote about Budapest at the turn of the twentieth century in the same progressive literary journals. Their literary depictions of Budapest illustrate the quest of secular Jews to discover new points of identification in the urban environment. How do Hungarian Jewish writers in Budapest characterize the city, Pest? How do they envision the major tenets of their own ‘urbanness’, of being ‘pesti’? Why do they invent themselves as pesti? I aim to draw a Jewish image of Budapest featuring the central concept of pesti as their place of belonging.
DOI:
10.1080/1462169X.2020.1739890
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