Original Cloth. 8vo. 783 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In English and Hungarian. Edited by Randolph L. Braham and Attila Pók. Outgrowth of the International Scholars' Conference held in Budapest on Apr. 2-7, 1994.The Holocaust in Hungary consist of some 30 essays that were read at an international conference in Budapest in 1994. One of the purposes of the gathering, the first such meeting in a former Warsaw Pact country, was to evaluate the lessons of the Holocaust. About half of those taking part in the conference were from Hungary. The volume's editors are Braham, the world's leading scholar of the Holocaust in Hungary, and Pok, the Deputy Director of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' (HAS) Institute of History.
The papers in this volume are divided into four categories: 1, preliminaries; 2, studies dealing with historical, social, economic and ideological antecedents; 3, essays dealing with the introduction and/or implementation of anti-Jewish regulations before and after the occupation of Hungary by the Nazis; and 4, papers on the Holocaust's impact on Hungary's Jews as well as its aftermath. The preliminary papers appear both in Hungarian and English, while others are presented in one or the other of these languages, each accompanied by a summary of the study's contents in the other language. - Review by Nandor F. Dreisziger, 1998, on H-NET reviews. Subjects: Jews - Persecutions - Hungary - Congresses. Antisemitism - Hungary - Congresses. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Hungary - Congresses. Holocaust survivors - Hungary - History - Congresses. Holocaust. Judenvernichtung. Holocaust. Antisemitism. Ethnic relations. Holocaust survivors. Jews - Persecutions. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Budapest (1994) Kongress (Budapest, 1994) New York (NY, 1994) Conference proceedings. Hungary - Ethnic relations - Congresses. Light wear to jacket. Very good + condition in good jacket. (BRAHAM-1-32) xx
