How they lived : the everyday lives of Hungarian Jews, 1867-1940 /
"This book consists of historical photographs and related text documenting the physical aspects of the lives of Hungarian Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the way they looked, the kind of neighborhoods and apartments they lived in, and the places where they worked"--Provided...
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Budapest :
Central European University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The diversity of Hungarian Jewish lifestyles; the three aspects of lifestyles selected for examination; the structure of this book; other characteristics of Hungarian Jewish lifestyles; the group of people, the period, and the geographic entity that are the subject of this book; old photos as records of the way people lived; the advantages and limitations of describing a culture through pictures; the sources of photos
- Historical overview
- Hungarian Jews in the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries
- What they looked like
- Where they lived
- Where they worked
- Epilogue.