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The stranger at hand antisemitic prejudices in post-communist Hungary / by András Kovács.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Brill eBook titles 2011 | Jewish Identities in a Changing World ; 15. | Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004223165Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2011Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004191952
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Stranger atDDC classification:
  • 305.892/40439 22
LOC classification:
  • DS146.H9 K673 2011
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Summary: In 2010 an extremist party with openly racist views, using barely concealed antisemitic language, received 17% of the votes in the parliamentary elections in Hungary. How can this awkward development in a newly established European democracy be explained? In this book the author examines antisemitism in post-communist Hungary in light of the empirical sociological studies of the past 20 years. The principal aim is to reconstruct the range, intensity and content of anti-Jewish prejudices as well as the factors affecting their change over time. The author also reveals the social background against which the newest political developments should be analyzed, and helps to determine whether in Hungary today antisemitism is only an ephemeral, temporary phenomenon or a gradually articulating, dynamic political ideology. \'…his work is indispensable for understanding politics and its historical, social, and cultural background in contemporary Hungary.” Gabor T. Rittersporn This book is also available in paperback.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preliminary Material -- Chapter I The Antisemitic Discourse after the Fall of Communism -- Chapter II Antisemitic Prejudices in Hungarian Society between 1994 and 2006 -- Chapter III Antisemitic Prejudice and Historical Remembrance of the Holocaust -- Chapter IV From Anti-Jewish Prejudice to Political Antisemitism? -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

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In 2010 an extremist party with openly racist views, using barely concealed antisemitic language, received 17% of the votes in the parliamentary elections in Hungary. How can this awkward development in a newly established European democracy be explained? In this book the author examines antisemitism in post-communist Hungary in light of the empirical sociological studies of the past 20 years. The principal aim is to reconstruct the range, intensity and content of anti-Jewish prejudices as well as the factors affecting their change over time. The author also reveals the social background against which the newest political developments should be analyzed, and helps to determine whether in Hungary today antisemitism is only an ephemeral, temporary phenomenon or a gradually articulating, dynamic political ideology. \'…his work is indispensable for understanding politics and its historical, social, and cultural background in contemporary Hungary.” Gabor T. Rittersporn This book is also available in paperback.

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