Az észak-erdélyi zsidó birtokok helyzete a második bécsi döntés után
Jewish Land Property in Northern Transylvania after the Second Vienna Award

Summary/Abstract: After the World War I the East Central European countries implemented their own land reforms, which, by the letter of their legislation, were meant to ease the social tensions caused by the inequalities in the distribution of the land property. Most of these land reforms failed to fulfill these goals, more importantly, they contributed to the agricultural crisis developed by the end of the 1920s. Due to the intensified anti-Semitic discourse, both in Hungary and Romania by the end of the 1930s and the subsequent years several acts were promulgated which were meant at first to restrain, than to cease the Jewish presence in economy. After the Second Vienna Award the Hungarian legislation was extended upon the newly annexed Northern Transylvania, with the acts regarding the Jewish land property, too. The first law that contained regulations about the restriction of the Jewish property was the act nr. 1939: IV; later the act nr. 1942: XV regarding the expropriation of all Jewish agricultural and forest property was also promulgated. Our paper analyzes the situation of the Hungarian land tenure policy in Northern Transylvania towards the Jewish land property, focusing on the measures taken accordingly to the regulations of the act no. 1942: XV, until the period of the German occupation in 1944.

• Details
• Contents