Publisher: Múlt és Jövő

1848-49 a magyar zsidóság életében

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian

The outstanding Hungarian humanist, Jenő Zsoldos has worked as the director of the Jewish Secondary School for Girls in Budapest. Three years after the Holocaust he has edited the publication “1848-49 in the Life of the Hungarian Jews” on the occasion of the Centenary of the Hungarian revolution 1948-1949. This revised edition is published on the occasion of the 150years anniversary of the revolution

A magyar zsidóság irodalmi tevékenysége a XIX. században

Author(s): Aladár Komlós / Language(s): Hungarian

Does a Hungarian Jewish Literature exist? Aladár Komlós analyses and approves this question in this monograph, written in the early 1940ies. After the Shoa the author reviewed his opinion and not even made an attempt to publish his work. The first edition of this monograph has been published posthumous, in 1996.

A nap árnyékában

Author(s): Zádor Tordai / Language(s): Hungarian

After the communist system has collapsed, the socio-political and economical situation has changed in Central and Eastern Europe. In his essays Zádor Tordai is focusing on the analyses of the socio-political results of the system change in Central and Eastern Europe and its interpretation – from the view of a philosopher.

A negyvennyolcas magyar szabadságharc és a zsidók

Author(s): Béla Bernstein / Language(s): Hungarian

One of his main work, the report of the participation of the Jews in the Hungarian Freedom Fight against the Habsburg Empire 1848-1849, is still sets the standard in the research of Hungarian Jewish history. Béla Bernstein, Hungarian rabbi and author; was graduated as Ph.D. at Leipsic, 1890, and as rabbi at the Budapest Seminary in 1893; since 1894 has officiated as rabbi at Szombathely (Stein-am-Anger). He published "Die Schrifterklärung des Bachja ben Ascher," Berlin, 1891, and collaborated in a Hungarian translation of the Pentateuch, published by the Jewish Hungarian Literary Society, 1898. A monograph upon the Hungarian Revolution and the Jews was also published in Hungarian by the same association in 1898; "Die Toleranztaxe der Juden in Ungarn," Breslau, 1901.

A történelem vonatán

Európa és Magyarország a 20. században

Author(s): Mária Ormos / Language(s): Hungarian

“The Train of History” by Mária Ormos invites the reader to two different „journeys”. Reception of both, history and historiography. It is a comprehensive study with author’s vision on Europe, focusing on the Hungarian history and Hungarian identity.

A zsidóemancipáció Magyarországon 1849-ben. Az 1849-es magyar zsidó emancipációs törvény és ismeretlen iratai

Author(s): Ambrus Miskolczy / Language(s): Hungarian

A zsidók utolsó kiűzése Bécsből és Alsó-Ausztriából

Author(s): Dávid Kaufmann / Language(s): Hungarian

David Kaufmann’s most important historical monograph "Die Letzte Vertreibung der Juden aus Wien, Ihre Vorgeschichte (1625-70) und Ihre Opfer" (Vienna, 1889; also in Hungarian) deals with the history of the Jews in Austria in the 17th century and provides also a deep outlook on the history of the Jews in the neighboring countries.

Az Auschwitzi jegyzőkönyv

Author(s): György Haraszti / Language(s): Hungarian

The Auschwitz Memorandum is the fundamental text of the last century. Two Auschwitz concentration camp inmates who escaped on April 1944 from the largest Nazi death factory wanted to tell the world the bad news in order to save the lives of hundreds of thousands. What they really presented was the supreme anatomy of evil that they personally witnessed in full bloom. Our publication is a collection of all the historical documents that reached the world from Auschwitz from 1942 to May 1944. The historian György Haraszti edited the documents and wrote the introductory essay. The Burning Secret is as exiting reading as a mystery novel. With the help of the testimony of Auschwitz inmates the reader learns much about the family of Nicholas Horthy, the inner workings of Zionist organizations as well as the politics of Roosevelt, Churchill and the Pope. Janos Kobanyai’s The Auschwitz Gospel asks the question of how the Auschwitz Memorandum could save only the majority of the Jews of Budapest? His investigating essay, which concludes our volume, is a dramatic presentation in a world historical setting. The secret was out and as a result many escaped death but since the news was not fully aired many more met their end in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

Az első nap

Emlékképek az ortodox zsidóságról

Author(s): Sándor Bacskai / Language(s): Hungarian

Sándor Bacskai´s „The First Day“ – as the first volume – begins with the golden age of the Jewish orthodoxy and ends in the time of returning from the forced labor camps, concentration camps.

Az út szélén

Holokauszt-életek

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian

The book contains three Holocaust narratives. They are the recollections of ordinary people whose experiences comprise their sole writing, story and message. The three pieces are not just the narratives of three different fates, but also present three different sociological backgrounds, all characteristic of Hungarian Jewry. And emphasis is placed on three different stages in the Holocaust narrative. Pál Kádár’s story (“A körgyógynapszámos” [The seasonal healer]) presents the life of a village doctor and his family – until their deportation to Auschwitz. The narrative featured in the collection’s title (Kornélia Terner: “Az út szélén” [At the edge of the road]) describes all three stages: the uprooting of a Jewish rural household, the events at Auschwitz, and the emotional difficulties of readjusting to ordinary life under the communist system, as well as the wounds that would not heal and finally the outburst after the last political upturn in 1989. Júlia Fodor-Wieg’s piece “Ezekből az emlékekből fogok élni” [I am going to live on these memories] describes the Holocaust as it was experienced by upper-middle-class Jews. The other great Hungarian narrative on the Holocaust is the hunt for men in the jungle of Budapest. The focus of her story continues until her departure from Hungary in 1957. She tells of the demise of a plundered Jewish middle-class, a great and credible document of the will and capacity for life. All three pieces bring us closer to ordinary people who are also heroes. Visual records of the destroyed world illustrate the book. In the epilogue The Holocaust as Narrative, János Kőbányai, who collected the memoirs, analyses and typifies the Hungarian Holocaust as a historical and cultural phenomenon on the lines of Imre Kertész’s “great narrative”.

Balkáni történetek

Author(s): Zádor Tordai / Language(s): Hungarian

States do have their own order, as cities have their own order as well. And all of them have backyards. You put everything in the backyard –according to the common sense, untidy and immoral -what does not fit into the general order, and in particular everything that does not want to fit in that order. In Europe, almost all countries have such backyards. It is true, that they are isolated from each other. But Europe as a whole has also its own backyard, which you can put under the category “the Balkans”.

Hagyományszakadás után

Author(s): János Kőbányai / Language(s): Hungarian

Most of the essays in this collection have been first published in the periodical Múlt és Jövő (Past and Future). The author deals with the question: What does it mean to be a Jew in today’s Hungary. He analyses the past experiences and values and takes as example the biography and lifework of Sándor Scheiber, Aladár Komlós, Károly Pap, Imre Ámos - and as contemporary Ágnes Heller.

Jób díja

Háttés és recepció

Author(s): János Kőbányai / Language(s): Hungarian

Job’s Prize began as an epilogue to The Depths of the Man – an anthology of the writings of Imre Kertész published in the magazine Múlt és Jövő. It is a separate work and a supplement, the two works, separate, but together as one, aim at some kind of stereo effect. The editor of the magazine and compiler of the anthology János Kőbányai sought out the general narrative behind the life-work of the Nobel Prize-winner, what material constitutes the history from which Imre Kertész raised and unfurled his own “Fatelessness”. Four consecutive eras of Hungarian Jewish history form the meta-narrative of this extraordinary achievement and its reception: the rapid but poorly founded Jewish assimilation of the Reform era and the reserved manner of acceptance; then the collapse of this process about a century later, or the Hungarian Holocaust so peculiar; followed by a period of enforced amnesia, that denied Jews any integrated form of identity; finally, contemporary times after the political change, which in the field of everyday politics tried to rewrite the Hungarian narrative, or in Kőbányai’s words: “to remove the actors from the stage”. This is the background to the birth of the work of Kertész and the failure to accept it in Hungary, but also to the generous reception of the novel all over the world, unprecedented in the annals of Hungarian literature since Janus Pannonius. In the second part, the author analyses the startled reception in Hungary of Kertész’s Nobel Prize and the intellectual discourse as it evolved in its wake.

Két világ határán

Author(s): György Haraszti / Language(s): Hungarian

György Haraszti is an outstanding member of the middle-aged generation of historians. The articles in this book investigate the milestones along the symbiotic process of co-existence of Jews and Hungarians during the 1000 years of Hungarian history. This collection contains his writings of the last ten years on the shared Jewish-Hungarian history. He draws on the latest findings of Hungarian and international historical research, and he also takes a new approach to 18th-century Jewish migration into Hungary, the social structure of Hungarian Jewry in 1848, and the question of the much-debated migration from Galicia. The closing essay surveys the problems of Hungarian-Jewish history writing.

Löw Lipót beszédei

Author(s): Lipót (Leopold) Löw / Language(s): Hungarian

Lipót (Leopold) Löw (1811-1875) , Hungarian rabbi was the foremost preacher of Hungary, and was invited to participate in nearly all the patriotic celebrations and synagogal dedications. The Jewish education throughout Hungary owed much to him.

Már nincs többé szükség a kakasra a népek között, és így levágják őket bűnbaknak.

Buchenwaldi héber (nyelv)emlékek

Author(s): Ernő Domán / Language(s): Hungarian

This publication is the translation of the original Memories of Ráv Élijáhu Domán (Domán Ernő), written in Hebrew. The original document is saved and stored in Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority . The translation and has been made by István Domán, the son of Ráv Élijáhu Domán, in September-October 2004.

Múlt és Jövő

Frequency: 4 issues / Country: Hungary

The first issue of the new Múlt és Jövő Journal appeared, in the form of an anthology, in December 1988. (The Journal is often referred to as MéJ: in academic publications the letters "ÚF", that is, new series, are added.) In 1989 two issues were published, and since 1990 there have been four regular issues per year. Our bibliography, which will be completed in the course of 2000 and which will also be available on the Internet, will provide readers with information about our work over the past ten years. The main genres to be found in the Journal include essays; historical, sociological and Judaistic studies; literature; the fine arts; reportage; and interviews. Although only a small part of our photographic material and illustrations will be found on our Internet pages, we plan to create an illustrations archive, through which we will be able to assist those interested in related subjects. Due to the increasing numbers of foreign subscribers to the Journal we include an English-language contents page and summary at the end of each issue - this is also required by foreign university libraries that subscribe to the Journal. Most of our issues focus on a particular theme. During recent years successive issues of the Journal have focused on the Jewish population of individual countries, such as Israel, Poland, France and Germany, in an attempt to establish connections with Jewish spiritual forums and personalities in these countries. In terms of the themes chosen for the Journal and for our publications, the years 1998 and 1999 were dominated by the 150th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution and 1848 War of Independence, and the 50th anniversary of the birth of the State of Israel. We also publish an annotated bibliography of Jewish-related books published in Hungarian, thus familiarity with the Múlt és Jövő Journal is invaluable for those with an interest in Hungarian Jewish studies.

Mutatkozás

Zsidó identitás történetek

Author(s): Éva Kovács,Júlia Vajda / Language(s): Hungarian

The individual and collective identity of the Jews is a well-established subject of research in sociology, social psychology and social history. This book differs from other studies in exploring Jewish identity through the coexistence of Jews with non-Jews in Hungary. It presents the “Jewishness” of such individuals and families who live in mixed marriages, in which the Jewish origin of one party (be it public or secret) becomes a source of peculiar identities. Through coexistence, Jewishness acquires new meanings ranging from a more intense identity, through abandoning or changing Jewish identity, to self-hatred and latent anti-Semitism. The book examines the changing use of various Jewish symbols, rituals and objects (e.g., Star of David, circumcision, Menorah). It is the first study in Hungary, which deals with the “Jewish identity” of non-Jews, philo-Semitism and pseudo-Jewish identity in mixed marriages. Also, it strives to bring the traumas of the Shoah in public debate by analysing it from the perspective of coexistence. Thereby, the book presents the guilty conscience of the children and grandchildren of the perpetrators, which has not been analysed in Hungary yet. Finally, the rediscovery of Jewish identity, a process that also includes some distancing from that identity is examined in a biographical context – a novelty in Jewish Studies in Hungary as well.

Rendhagyó történelemóra a holokausztról

Author(s): Ferenc Glatz,Árpád Göncz,Mária Ormos,Mihály Márkus / Language(s): Hungarian

Retetgés

Author(s): István Domán / Language(s): Hungarian

The autobiography of István Domán (like his novel about his father) is an unusual document. He describes not only the orthodox Jewish micro cosmos, but also the psychic world and consciousness of this subculture, which has been forgotten in the literature, sociography as well as in the anthropological research.