Stranger at Hand (paperback)

Antisemitic Prejudices in Post-Communist Hungary

AvAndrás Kovács

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Del 15 i serien Jewish Identities in a Changing World

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Beskrivning

In 2010 an extremist party with openly racist views, using barely concealed antisemitic language, received 17% of the votes in the parliamentary elections in Hungary. How can this awkward development in a newly established European democracy be explained? In this book the author examines antisemitism in post-communist Hungary in light of the empirical sociological studies of the past 20 years. The principal aim is to reconstruct the range, intensity and content of anti-Jewish prejudices as well as the factors affecting their change over time. The author also reveals the social background against which the newest political developments should be analyzed, and helps to determine whether in Hungary today antisemitism is only an ephemeral, temporary phenomenon or a gradually articulating, dynamic political ideology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-03-28
Mått:155 x 235 x 12 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Jewish Identities in a Changing World
Antal sidor:212
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004253308

Utforska kategorier

Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

András Kovács, PhD (1973) in Sociology, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary, Doctor of Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is Professor at Central European University, Budapest and senior researcher in the Institute for Ethnic and Minority Research at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His main research fields include Jewish identity and antisemitism in post-war Europe, socio-economic attitudes, and political choice.

Recensioner i media

"…his work is indispensable for understanding politics and its historical, social, and cultural background in contemporary Hungary." - Gabor T. Rittersporn"[…]while the revival of anti-Semitism in post-communist East and Central Europe has been examined on more than one occasion by competent pollsters in the past, none of them matched the analytical finesse that Kovács displays in this book." - Michael Shafir, in: Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări, vol iv, nr. 1 (2012)

Innehållsförteckning

Contents1. Antisemitic Discourse after the Fall of Communism2. Antisemitic Prejudices in Hungarian Society between 1994 and 20063. Antisemitic Prejudice and Historical Remembrance of the Holocaust4. From Anti-Jewish Prejudice to Political Antisemitism?