Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Contents
- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
- Polin
- Statement From the Editors
- SYMPOSIUM: JEWS AND THE EMERGENCE OF AN INDEPENDENT POLISH STATE
- ARTICLES
- DOCUMENTS
- COMMENTARY
- REVIEW ESSAYS
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Nahum Gross (ed.) Yehudim ba-Kalkalah
- Jonathan I. Israel European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism: 1550-1750
- Lucy S. Dawidowicz The Golden Tradition. Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe
- Joseph Weiss Studies in Eastern European Jewish Mysticism (edited by David Goldstein)
- Mathias Bersohn Kilka słów o dawniejszych bozjnicach drewnianych w Polsce
- Magdalena Opalski The Jewish Tavern-Keeper and his Tavern in Nineteenth Century Polish Literature
- Steven J. Zipperstein The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History
- Stephen M. Berk Year of CrisisYear of Hope. Russian Jewry and The Pogroms of 1881-1882
- Hans Rogger Jewish Policies and Right-Wing Politics in Imperial Russia
- Hans Rogger Jewish Policies and Right-Wing Politics in Imperial Russia
- Heide W. Whelan Alexander III and the State Council: Bureaucracy and Counter-Reform in Late Imperial Russia
- Mary Antin The Promised Land
- John Bodnar The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America
- Michael R. Weisser A Brotherhood of Memory: Jewish Landsmanshaftn in the New World
- Henryk Piasecki Secja Żydowsfca PPSD i Żydowska Partia Socjal-Demokratyczna 1892-1919/20
- Ber Borochov Class Struggle and the Jewish Nation. Selected Essays in Marxist Zionism
- Ehud Luz Makbilim Nifgashim
- Shmuel Nitzan (ed.) Tnu'at Dror be'Galicia
- Ritchie Robertson Kafka: Judaism, Politics and Literature
- Sander L. Gilman Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews
- Edward D. Wynot Warsaw Between the World Wars: Profile of the Capital City in a Developing Land
- Aleksander Biberstein Zagłada Żydów w Krakowie
- Shmuel Krakowski The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942-1944
- Nechama Tec When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland
- W Czerdziestzą, Rocznicp Agonia, walka i śmierć warszawskiego getta; Janina Jaworska Henryka Becka
- Hanna Krall Sublokatorka
- Randolph L. Braham and Bélo Vágó (eds) The Holocaust in Hungary: Forty Years Later
- Les Limes du Souvenir: Mémoriaux juifs de Pologne (presente par Annette Wieviorka et Yitzhok Niborski)
- Leiter to the Editors
- Contributors
- Obituaries
Randolph L. Braham and Bélo Vágó (eds) The Holocaust in Hungary: Forty Years Later
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- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Editors and Advisers
- Contents
- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
- Polin
- Statement From the Editors
- SYMPOSIUM: JEWS AND THE EMERGENCE OF AN INDEPENDENT POLISH STATE
- ARTICLES
- DOCUMENTS
- COMMENTARY
- REVIEW ESSAYS
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Nahum Gross (ed.) Yehudim ba-Kalkalah
- Jonathan I. Israel European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism: 1550-1750
- Lucy S. Dawidowicz The Golden Tradition. Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe
- Joseph Weiss Studies in Eastern European Jewish Mysticism (edited by David Goldstein)
- Mathias Bersohn Kilka słów o dawniejszych bozjnicach drewnianych w Polsce
- Magdalena Opalski The Jewish Tavern-Keeper and his Tavern in Nineteenth Century Polish Literature
- Steven J. Zipperstein The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History
- Stephen M. Berk Year of CrisisYear of Hope. Russian Jewry and The Pogroms of 1881-1882
- Hans Rogger Jewish Policies and Right-Wing Politics in Imperial Russia
- Hans Rogger Jewish Policies and Right-Wing Politics in Imperial Russia
- Heide W. Whelan Alexander III and the State Council: Bureaucracy and Counter-Reform in Late Imperial Russia
- Mary Antin The Promised Land
- John Bodnar The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America
- Michael R. Weisser A Brotherhood of Memory: Jewish Landsmanshaftn in the New World
- Henryk Piasecki Secja Żydowsfca PPSD i Żydowska Partia Socjal-Demokratyczna 1892-1919/20
- Ber Borochov Class Struggle and the Jewish Nation. Selected Essays in Marxist Zionism
- Ehud Luz Makbilim Nifgashim
- Shmuel Nitzan (ed.) Tnu'at Dror be'Galicia
- Ritchie Robertson Kafka: Judaism, Politics and Literature
- Sander L. Gilman Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews
- Edward D. Wynot Warsaw Between the World Wars: Profile of the Capital City in a Developing Land
- Aleksander Biberstein Zagłada Żydów w Krakowie
- Shmuel Krakowski The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942-1944
- Nechama Tec When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland
- W Czerdziestzą, Rocznicp Agonia, walka i śmierć warszawskiego getta; Janina Jaworska Henryka Becka
- Hanna Krall Sublokatorka
- Randolph L. Braham and Bélo Vágó (eds) The Holocaust in Hungary: Forty Years Later
- Les Limes du Souvenir: Mémoriaux juifs de Pologne (presente par Annette Wieviorka et Yitzhok Niborski)
- Leiter to the Editors
- Contributors
- Obituaries
Summary
This book of essays is the result of various lectures and conferences. The forty years noted in the title serves as a commemoration for 1944 and the events of the Holocaust in Hungary. The facts are, of course, well known. During the last stages of the Second World War the killing of most of the 800,000 Hungarian Jews who perished during the Holocuast was done with almost uncanny expertise and frightening speed by the SS ‘ ‘specialists’ and the Hungarian bodies attached to them, especially the Hungarian gendarmie which took part in the deportations. Between 15 May and 10 July 1944, 437,402 persons alleged to be Jews were taken to certain death to Auschwitz. Apart from Budapest's 200,000 Jews, all were deported. The forced marches and the brutality of the Hungarian fascists decimated even the relatively protected ones. But the ghetto in Pest and most of the Jews in the capital survived the War.
The book includes short and some longer essays by the finest specialists in the field. The work is not exclusively academic and included are personal confessions and literary essays as well as more standard historical studies. Some of the authors themselves were victims. The different viewpoints aired and the contrasts of opposing opinions make this collection especially valuable. The most striking difference between the essays written in Hungary and those produced by foreigners is that while the Hungarian writers aim to describe and understand the facts, some of the other researchers, from Israel and the United States, seek to identify criminals. They condemn both the representatives of the Hungarian cultural and political life and the elected leaders of the Jews. The essays in the first part of the volume study the roots of the German-Hungarian antisemitic traditions, the network of the Hungarian-Jewish, Jewish Hungarian bonds, the features of the political and ideological life between the World Wars. Nathaniel Katzburg, Gyorgy Száraz, Ivan T. Berend and Istavan Deak describe the route to the Holocaust through the institutionalization of anti-semitism. Gula Juhász lists the various authors and intellectual trends that sustained racism.
Raphael Patai examines the Hungarian Jewish intelligentsia. Elsewhere authors focus on the tragic year of 1944. Gyorgy Ranki and Béla Vágó analyse the respective role and responsibility of Germans and Hungarians.
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- Jews and the Emerging Polish State (Polin Volume Two) , pp. 471 - 472Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2008