Always Hungarian

Hungarian Jewry through the Vicissitudes of the Modern Era

Edited by: Anna Szalai, Guy Miron, Shlomo Spitzer

The twenty papers in this compilation present various aspects of Jewish Hungarian history, culture and experience. They are presented to the reader in the language in which they were written - Hebrew or English.

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Danacode: 110-20321 ISBN: 978-965-226-596-8 Language: Hebrew/English Pages: 501 Weight: 1000 gr Dimensions: 17X24 cm Publication Date: 09/2021 Publisher: Bar-Ilan University Press

Preface 11

Emancipation and Integration

Victor Karady / “Assimilation” and Magyarization: Magyar Surnames among the Young Jewish Intelligentsia (1850-1948) 17*

Attila Gidó / Hungarians Again? The Northern Transylvanian Jews after the Second Vienna Award 39*

Jehuda Hartman / The Sudden Turnabout in Hungarian Orthodoxy after Emancipation (Hebrew) 17

Zsófia Kata Vincze / The Rise of the “Jewish Question” in a Populist Ethnic Nationalistic Regime 53*

Zionism and Orthodoxy

Miriam Neiger / “Herzl’s Moments of Rage”: Avigdor Hameiri’s Zionism and Hungarian Jewry in the Early Twentieth Century (Hebrew) 41

Yoav Sorek / Between Ideology and Politics in Hungarian Orthodoxy: A Re-Examination of the Controversy on Zionism in “Tel Talpiot” (Hebrew) 67

Ayala Nedivi / The Palestine Office in Budapest under the Leadership of Moshe Krausz was “Rescue Institute for Tens of Thousand Immigrants [in 1944]” – How? (Hebrew) 99

Levi Cooper / Importing Rabbis, Importing Culture: The Munkács Rabbinate as a Case Study for a Hungarian-Jewish Meta-Narrative (Hebrew) 117

Judith Karpati / Changes in Female Attitudes Regarding the Use of the Mikveh in Hungary in General and in the Town of Szombathely in Particular during the 19th-20th Centuries 95*

Education, Culture and Society

Yitzhak Kashti / Modern Jewish Schooling in Hungary 1780-1948 (Hebrew) 149

Viktória Bányai / Jewish Children and Jewish Schools in Hungary after the Holocaust, 1945–1948 107*

Ilana Rosen / The Poetry of 1.5 and Second-Generation Israelis of Hungarian Origin (Hebrew) 165

Barak S. Cohen / Wilhelm Bacher’s Contribution to the Study of Aggada Literature – Further Study (Hebrew) 191

Ráchel Surányi / The Igen-Migen Generation: Self-identification of Hungarian Émigrés (1939-1957) in Israel and Their Children 125*

Eszter Susán / From a New Jewish Culture to Social Justice Entrepreneurship: Jewish Revival among Young Adults in Post-Socialist Hungary 151*

Personages

Adina Stern / Engineer Arpad Gut – Major Construction in Mandatory Palestine (Hebrew) 209

Júlia Cserba / Life in the Service of Art: A Portrait of Imre Pán (1904-1972) 175*

Adam S. Ferziger / Rediscovering Childhood Roots: Jacob Katz’s Re-engagement with Hungary – Implications for Academic Jewish Studies 191*

Olga Ungar / Navigating between the Intimate and the Public: Hungarian Jewish Sculptor Michael Kara, Commissions for Jewish Institutions and Individuals in Yugoslavia and his Reception in Israel 205*

Elli Fischer / “They did not Change their Names, their Language, or their Dress”: The Lifecycle of a Peculiar Midrashic Variant 239*

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