Christianity and the holocaust of Hungarian Jewry /

The tragedy of Hungarian Jewry reached its climax between the 15th of May and the 7th of July, 1944, when nearly half a million Jews were expelled from Hungary and sent to death camps. The removal of Jews from Hungary - except for those of the capital, Budapest - was absolute, and was carried out ra...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hertsel, Mosheh Y., 1924-1990
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©1993.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • part 1. The preparatory years: Introduction
  • Background
  • The blood libel of Tisza Eszlar
  • The Catholic people's party
  • The revolutions and the white terror
  • The Catholic press
  • The "numerous clausus" law
  • The consolidation of the twenties and the Christian antisemitism of the thirties
  • Popular antisemitism of the thirties
  • Cross movements and the arrow-cross party
  • Conclusion.
  • part 2. Anti-Jewish legislation: Introduction
  • The first anti-Jewish act
  • The eucharistic convention
  • In the wake of the act's adoption
  • The second anti-Jewish act
  • The debate in the upper house: the stand of church leaders
  • Extraparliamentary activity during and after the debate on the second anti-Jewish act
  • The demand for additional anti-Jewish legislation
  • The third anti-Jewish act
  • The labor battalions act
  • The Jewish religion status-lowering act
  • The Jewish estates expropriation act
  • The Kalay proposal of rthe expulsion of the Jews from Hungary
  • Conclusion.
  • part 3. 1944: Introduction
  • The expulsion
  • Who carried out the expulsion?
  • Priestly activity
  • The shepherds' epistles
  • A quarter of a million Budapest Jews
  • trapped
  • Hungarian initiatives
  • Conclusion.