SPECS: 1631 pages, 48 maps, 669 b&w photos, 5 tables, bibliog. abbrev., glossary, chronology, indexes, 8½” x 11”
PUB DATE: 2013
KIND: Hardcover (three-volume set, slipcased)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2916-0
PRICE: $295.00
PUBLISHED BY: Northwestern University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies
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The illustrated three-volume Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary is a magisterial resource, thorough and exhaustive, chronicling the wartime fate of the Jewish communities in that country where virulent antisemitism is anything but dead, even today. With scores of detailed maps and hundreds of photographs, this reference work is organized alphabetically by county, each prefaced with a map and a contextual history describing its Jewish population up to and into 1944. Entries track the demographic, cultural, and religious changes in even the smallest communities where Jews lived before their marginalization, dispossession, ghettoization, and, finally, deportation to labor and death camps. The encyclopedia endows scholars and lay researchers with both panoramic and microscopic views of the virtually last-minute destruction of most of the Jews of Hungary, until then the last sizable surviving Jewish community in occupied Europe.
“Indispensable . . . To recommend this work to teachers, their students, and researchers is more than an act of friendship; it is the duty of remembrance that belongs to the realm of the sacred.”
— Elie Wiesel, from the foreword
“A massive and valuable undertaking....Each entry offers a valuable concise history of a particular Jewish community from its origins to, in many cases, its post-Holocaust demise....Conveys the scope and geographical scale of the 'Final Solution' in Hungary....[and] the encyclopedia's focus on the local serves to highlight differences in the implementation of the Holocaust throughout Hungary....A wealth of information.”
— Tim Cole [reviewing the Hungarian edition] in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Randolph L. Braham is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he also is Director of the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. Additionally, he also is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than sixty books, including the monumental The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary.
