Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide

An Intellectual History, 1929-1948
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32464-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 492 g

Reihe: Central and Eastern Europe

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laczó, Ferenc

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Hungarian Jewry before and after the Holocaust
Jewish Intellectual History and the Case of Hungary
Themes and Sources

Jewish Studies in the Horthy Era
Identity
Modern Traditions
Values
Contributions
Historicity
Conclusion

Intellectual Agendas in the Shadow of Looming Catastrophe
Conceptions of Jewish Culture
From Creating to Saving Jewish Culture
Political Discourses
Narratives of Crisis
Conclusion

The Audible Voices of the Persecuted
Hungarian Jewish Scholars and the Horthy Era
A Contemporary History of Nazism
Conclusion

Articulating the Unprecedented
The DEGOB Interview Protocols
Remembering Buchenwald
Annihilation and Death Camps
Witnessing the Gas Chambers
Conclusion

Narrating Survival
The Privileged among the Terrorized
On the Devil’s Island, on Tortured Roads
Diverging Fates
Conclusion

Documenting Responsibility
Nazism as Falsified Genealogy
The Profound Ambivalences of a Key Witness
An Integrated History of the Holocaust in Hungary
A Communist Panorama of the European Jewish Catastrophe
Conclusion

Conclusion
Biographical Notes
Bibliography
Main Primary Sources
Main Secondary Sources. Books
Main Secondary Sources. Articles

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ferenc Laczó, Ph.D. (2011), is Assistant Professor in contemporary European history at Maastricht University. He has published peer reviewed articles in Holocaust Studies, the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, and the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook.