Research Catalog

Title

Communism's Jewish question : Jewish issues in Communist archives / edited and introduced by András Kovács.

Publication

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

Kovács, András, 1947-

Description

x, 371 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"In the last two decades a large amount of previously secret documents on Jewish issues emerged from the newly opened Communist archives. The selection of these papers published in the volume and stemming mostly from Hungarian archives will shed light on a period of Jewish history that is largely ignored because much of the current scholarship treats the Shoah as the end of Jewish history in the region. The documents introduced and commented by the editor of the volume, András Kovács, will give insight into the conditions and constraints under which the Jewish communities, first of all, the largest Jewish community of the region, the Hungarian one, had to survive in the time of the post-Stalinist Communist dictatorship. They may shed light on the ways that 'Jewish policy' of the Soviet bloc countries was coordinated and orchestrated from Moscow and by the single countries. The archival material will prove that the ruling communist parties were restlessly preoccupied with the 'Jewish question.' This preoccupation, which kept the whole issue alive in the decades of communist rule, explains to a great extent its open reemergence in the time of transition and in the post-communist period"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Europäisch-Jüdische Studien Editionen = European-Jewish studies editions ; volume 3

Uniform Title

Europäisch-jüdische Studien. Editionen ; Bd. 3.

Subjects

• Hungary > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century > Sources
• Hungary > Politics and government > 1945-1989 > Sources
• HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
• HISTORY / Social History
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism
• HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
• Communism > Social aspects > Hungary > History > Sources
• Jews > Hungary > Social conditions > 20th century > Sources
• Dictatorship > Social aspects > Hungary > History > Sources
• Hungary > Social policy > Sources
• Community life > Hungary > History > 20th century > Sources
• Jews > Government policy > Hungary > History > 20th century > Sources
• HISTORY / Jewish
• Communism and Judaism > Hungary > History > Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-366) and index.

Contents

Communist policies and the Jewish state -- The Eichmann affair -- The Six-Day war and its aftermath -- The international Jewish organisation, the Jewish community and the State -- Mechanisms of repression and the Jews

Call Number

JFE 17-7545

ISBN

• 9783110411522
• 3110411520

LCCN

2017021753

OCLC

987212596

Title

Communism's Jewish question : Jewish issues in Communist archives / edited and introduced by András Kovács.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Europäisch-Jüdische Studien Editionen = European-Jewish studies editions ; volume 3

Europäisch-jüdische Studien. Editionen ; Bd. 3.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-366) and index.

Added Author

Kovács, András, 1947- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-7545