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Rosika Schwimmer, the Extraordinary Hungarian Feminist and Pacifist

In recognition of her accomplishments in organizing the feminist Congress in Budapest, Schwimmer was asked to join the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in its London office as a press secretary. Soon after her arrival to the United Kingdom World War…
Kőszeg Jews being marched by gendarmes to the railway station on 18 June 1944. After their transfer to the Szombathely ghetto they were deported to Auschwitz on 4 July 1944. (Fortepan)

The Holocaust in Hungary and the Legal Tools of Oppression

‘Hungarian Jews were generally known for their assimilated and law-abiding nature. By and large, they saw themselves as loyal Hungarian citizens and followed the law of the land to the letter. This was part of a well-rehearsed strategy on the…
Prince Árpád holding a drinking horn (detail, Chronicon Pictum, cca 1360)

The Spiritual History of the Hungarian Nation — Part IV

‘On our part, we doubt that “history of ideas” as a methodologically coherent discipline existed in Hungary between the two world wars…Nevertheless, their work is undoubtedly a prime example of an attempt at the creation of a conservative-oriented social science….
The Huszár government in 1919. István Haller is first from left in the first row.

Christian and Antisemitic? — István Haller’s Christian Politics

István Haller was a prominent Hungarian Christian politician in the first half of the 20th century. His book summing up his views on Christian politics is apparently paradoxical—it is both Christian-inspired and antisemitic. This combination illustrates the troubling tension that…
Kuno Klebelsberg in 1917 (photographed by Sándor Strelisky)

‘Only culture can keep Hungary alive’ — Count Kuno Klebelsberg and the Development of Hungarian Public Education

‘Klebelsberg believed that “today it is not the sword but culture that can keep the Hungarian homeland alive and make it great again”, and he considered it important not only to educate the Hungarian elite but also to develop the…

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