Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Jewish Budapest as a Symbolic Space
  • Cultural Visions of the Emerging City
  • The Jewish Question and the Paradox of Hungarian Liberalism
  • A Jewish Politician in a Divided Public Space
  • The Jewish Humor Magazine and Collective Self-Parody
  • The Scandal of the Budapest Orpheum
  • Critical Cross-Dressing and Jewish Bourgeois Identity
  • Epilogue: The Warning of Jewish Budapest after World War I