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Holocaust Hero on the Gallows: the Story of Yakov Weiss  

Perhaps few in Hungary know why a Hungarian Jew who helped Jews in Budapest during the Holocaust and was later executed by the British is so revered in Israel today….

‘A True Friend of Our Denomination’ – How the Last Hungarian King Was Seen by the Jewish Community

It is a fact that even between the two wars, what Hungarian Jews remembered about the Habsburgs between the two world wars was the inclusive liberalism of a bygone era, the period of the first Jewish minister, as well as…

‘Our Six Million Relatives’ – Turanism and the Strange Search for New Alliances after the First World War in Hungary

The early twenties in Hungary brought about not only a fervent nationalist discussion about Trianon, the Romani or antisemitism, but also illusory concepts regarding the Eastern roots of the Hungarian people….

Max Nordau: A Scion of Budapest Who Dreamt of a ‘Muscular Jewry’

Left-wing Zionism is barely alive, while right-wing secular Zionism has been dominant until now, but the previous Israeli prime minister was already something Nordau could never have envisioned: a kippah-wearing ex-officer of the IDF, Naftali Bennett….

The ‘Mangy Sheep of Christ’? – Sects and Small Churches in Hungary in the 1920s

This chapter of the interwar system needs to be reckoned with, if only to illustrate the progress the Hungarian right has made since then: today, small neo-Protestant Christian churches are allies of the right in Hungary, and not treated as…

‘I will wipe the city off the face of the earth’ – The Serbian Occupation of Baranya

If one spends some time in Hungary, one may come to the opinion that the Serbs a ‘stubborn’ and ‘rather barbaric people’. This kind of anti-Serbian language dominated contemporary British reports….

Chasing Ghosts – The British Secret Service and Béla Kun, 1939–1952

The British were tallying all the myths and legends about Kun, and sometimes they even gave credence to them….

The First Zionist in Hungary? Győző Istóczy and His Strange Call for a Jewish State

The “Jewish world conspiracy” behind the Jewish swindler from Baltavár sounds like a bad joke, even though Istóczy was not joking: he became the most decisive and perhaps the only truly famous antisemitic politician of Dualist Hungary….

Collaborator or Victim? The Curious Case of Ödön Antl

Sometimes post-war transformative justice did catch real war criminals, but sometimes completely innocent men like Antl were caught in its machine….

‘The Brothers-in-Law are Coming’ – How did Hungarians See the German Occupation in 1944?

The question was posed as follows: was Hungary truly occupied, or did enough of Hungarian sovereignty remain to label the country “independent”?…

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