Language:
French
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Ecriture de l'histoire et identité juive
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2003) 83-94
Keywords:
Jews Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Historians
Abstract:
Discusses the debate among Hungarian historians provoked by Randolph Braham’s "The Politics of Genocide; the Holocaust in Hungary", published in the U.S. in 1981 and translated into Hungarian only seven years later. Focuses on several aspects of the debate: whether the Holocaust of Hungarian Jews could have been avoided, the singularity of the fate of Hungarian Jews, and the question of responsibility for the Holocaust in Hungary. Braham’s main critic in Hungary was historian György Ránki, himself an assimilated Jew. Notes that Ránki’s opinion on German or Hungarian responsibility for the Holocaust would change according to the audience he was addressing. Diverse views concerning responsibility affected the relations between Jews and non-Jews in Hungary in the 1980s. Discusses, also, the views of William McCagg, István Deák, and other Hungarian historians.
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