Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry /
The complicity of the Hungarian Christian church in the mass extermination of Hungarian Jews by the Nazis is a largely forgotten episode in the history of the Holocaust. Using previously unknown correspondence and other primary source materials, Moshe Y. Herczl recreates the church's actions an...
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New York, N.Y. :
NYU Press,
1993
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and acknowledgments
- 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 "numerus 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
- 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
- Extra-parliamentary 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 Kallay Proposal for the expulsion of the Jews from Hungary
- Conclusion
- 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
- Notes
- Index.
Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry /