ISBN:
9789004328655
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2016
Series Statement:
Central and Eastern Europe v. 8
Series Statement:
regional perspectives in global context
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Laczó, Ferenc Hungarian Jews in the age of genocide
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Jews Persecutions 20th century
;
History
Abstract:
Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Jewish Studies in the Horthy Era -- 3 Intellectual Agendas in the Shadow of Catastrophe -- 4 The Audible Voices of the Persecuted -- 5 Articulating the Unprecedented -- 6 Narrating Survival -- 7 Interpreting Responsibility -- 8 Conclusion -- Biographical Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
Hungarian Jews, the last major Jewish community in the Nazi sphere of influence by 1944, constituted the single largest group of victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau. In Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide Ferenc Laczó draws on hundreds of scholarly articles, historical monographs, witness accounts as well as published memoirs to offer a pioneering exploration of how this prolific Jewish community responded to its exceptional drama and unprecedented tragedy. Analysing identity options, political discourses, historical narratives and cultural agendas during the local age of persecution as well as the varied interpretations of persecution and annihilation in their immediate aftermath, the monograph places the devastating story of Hungarian Jews at the dark heart of the European Jewish experience in the 20th century
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004328655
