The Holocaust in Hungary: Sixty Years Later
Edited by Randolph L. Braham and Brewster S. Chamberlin
This comprehensive study of the Holocaust in Hungary addresses a broad historic perspective. The text, consisting of contributions by twenty-one distinguished scholars and including a keynote address by Elie Wiesel, deals with both wartime and postwar Holocaust issues in Hungary, as well as with some of the art and literature that arose out of the devastation.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Paul A. Shapiro
Keynote speech by Elie Wiesel
Keynote speech by Randolph L. Braham
The Fateful Year: 1942 in the Reports of Hungarian Diplomats
— László Karsai
The Holocaust and the Transylvanian Question in the Twentieth Century
— Holly Case
A Gendered Holocaust? The Experiences of “Jewish” Men and Women in Hungary, 1944
— Tim Cole
Interviews with Survivors of the Hungarian Forced Labor Service: An Evaluation
— Dan Danieli
The Economic Annihilation of the Hungarian Jews, 1944–1945
— Gábor Kádár and Zoltán Vági
Ordinary Deaths in Times of Genocide and Forced Assimilation: Patterns of Jewish Mortality in Budapest (1937–1960)
— Victor Karády
Christian Help Provided to Jews of Northern Transylvania during World War II: As Revealed by the Jewish Weekly Egység (May 1946–August 1947)
— Daniel A. Lowy
Gendarmes before the People’s Court
— Judit Molnár
The She’erit ha-Pletah: Holocaust Survivors in Northern Transylvania
— Jean Ancel
The Revival of Anti-Semitism in Post-Communist Hungary: The Early 1990s
— Ivan T. Berend
Identity on the Move: Hungarian Jewry between Budapest and the DP Camps, 1945–1948
— Alice Freifeld
The Christian Churches and Memory of the Holocaust in Hungary, 1945–1948
— Paul Hanebrink
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archival Collections Relating to the Holocaust in Hungary
— Radu Ioanid and Frank Katona
Hungarian Jews’ Perceptions of Anti-Semitism
— András Kovács
Why Was There No Historikerstreit in Hungary after 1989–1990?
— Attila Pók
Hungarian Politics and the Post-1989 Legacy of the Holocaust
— Michael Shafir
Transylvanian Jewry during the Postwar Period, 1945–1948
— Zoltán Tibori Szabó
From the Periphery to the Center: The Holocaust in Hungary and Israeli Historiography
— Raphael Vago
Trauma and Distortion: Holocaust Fiction and the Ban on Jewish Memory in Hungary
— Zsuzsanna Ozsváth
Imre Kertész’s Fateless on Film: A Hungarian Holocaust Saga
— Catherine Portuges
Jewish Literary Renaissance in Post-Communist Hungary
— Ivan Sanders
Randolph L. Braham is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Director of the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.
Brewster S. Chamberlin is co-editor of the Archival Guide to the Collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
