Dinasztikus hűség egy dinasztia nélküli korban

Besides loyalty to the Hungary of the Horthy era, the image of dualist Hungary appeared in the press as the counter-example to the loss of territory at Trianon and the anti-Semitic phenomena. This nostalgia was manifested in a longing for the dynasty and the destroyed Monarchy. Old Hungary, the dynasty and the Hungarian Jew loyal to it figured in this context. However, numerous social and cultural phenomena, as well as internal Jewish discourse can only be interpreted within a general Central European framework. After 1920 there was also a change in the proportions of the different Jewish trends in Hungary. The borders appeared not only in their physical state as an unbridgeable reality that had to be dealt with but also created new borders in the organisation of groups and society

Elkísérés nélküli gyász : első világháborús magyar zsidó hősi halottak gyászhíreinek antropológiai vizsgálata a budapesti magyar nyelvű zsidó lapokban

The study analyses the structure of the war obituaries published by the Hungarian Neolog and Zionist press. The Hungarian language Jewish press(Egyenlőség, Zsidó Szemle) create a modern forum that served both as a medium for the flow of information and a tool of cultural change. The publications reflect wider social processes within the information ecosystem, whereas the ‘facts’ found in them can give an insight solely into the ambitions of the editorial circle and the institutional elite behind the certain paper. The obituary, which is part of the war propaganda and hero worship that mobilised the Jewry shows similarities within the Central European Ashkenazi population. In the Central European states the Jews who were granted civil rights identified with the modern notions of national identity –within varying frameworks.From the time of death to the burial, the mourner's sole responsibility iscaring for the deceased and preparing for the burial. This period is known as aninut.During this time, the mourners are exempt from all positive commandments, because the preparations take first priority. This period usually lasts a day or two; Judaism requires prompt burial. During the war it was difficult for the relatives to mourn their heroes in traditional Jewish way

"Souvajsz Jeruzsálemben" : a Szentföld modern átértelmezései a magyar nyelvű neológ és cionista sajtóban

Modern Hungarian Jewry, similarly to modern European Jewry, integrated into the denominational framework of the modern state by the end of the 19th century. Nevertheless, the communal remembrance of the scattering (‘galuth’) played a significant role in their collective consciousness reinterpreted according to modern views. In my study I have investigated the attitude of modern, urban editor and publisher elite to the Holy Land and to Holy Places in the Holy Land appearing around Zionist and neolog publications regarding articles and reports on journeys to the Holy Land.As sources for my research I have chosen the neolog social weekly paper ‘Egyenlőség’ (Equality), which is close to but not institutionally attached to and in fact often representing different point of view as opposed to the Israelite Community of Pest; ‘Zsidó Szemle’ (Jewish Review) - the official journal of the Hungarian Zionist Organization and the cultural Zionist ‘Múlt és Jövő’ (Past and Future)

"Buzgólkodom népemért, a szentélyért" : vallási rítusok a nemzetvallás szolgálatában a 20. század első felének budapesti cionista sajtójában

At the turn of the 19th-20th century the different Jewish groups in Hungary had to face many challenges. They had to reconcile the demands made by modernity and the majority society with their own group interests. The changing environment endangered the survival of the group and questioned its basic values. Religion, as the primary determinant of value, shifted from the community sphere to the private sphere and lost some of its importance. Zionists thought that the guarantee for the survival of the Jews was the creation of a Jewish national character and Jewish national memory. They reinterpret religious traditions as a function of modern categories. The press, the most important attitude-shaping communication media of the period, played a major role in preserving and strengthening collective national consciousness

Magyar Makkabeusok a császár-király seregében : a dinasztia és nemzet iránti hűség összeegyeztetése

Emancipation and social engagement facilitated the Central European Jewry’s identification with the modern notion of national identity. During the Great War this often came into conflict with Jewish universalism. Those of Jewish denomi-nation supporting the various national identity notions identified with the war aims and propaganda of the given nation while they tried to find the antetype of the new circumstances in the Jewish past and Judaism. The study analyses the structure of the war propaganda published by the Hungarian Neologist and Zionist press. It aims to examine the biblical antetypes, the topoi of the modern Jewry and Central European discourse in the enemy-image, war aims and Jewish self-definition of the press. The war propaganda and hero worship that mobilised the Jewry shows similarities within the Central European Ashkenazi population. The Hungarian language Jewish press analysed in the present study (Egyenlőség, Zsidó Szemle) create a modern forum that served both as a medium for the flow of information and a tool of cultural change. The publications reflect wider social processes within the information ecosystem, whereas the ‘facts’ found in them can give an insight solely into the ambitions of the editorial circle and the institutional elite behind the certain paper. The news items published earlier by the press reappeared in the framework of the war propaganda with transformed messages. The study touches on these transforma-tions connected to the internalization of war aims and the apologetic application of hero worship

Változatlanság a változásban : a két világháború közötti budapesti zsidó csoportok önképe a megváltozott kárpát-medencei határok függvényében

In this study we examine how the changed borders following the First World War appeared in the discourses of the Jewish press in Hungary. Hungarian society in the interwar years was imbued with the question of borders. There was no politi-cal force in the country that did not place the emphasis on the question of territorial revision. At the same time, beyond the political elite, the entire Hungarian society experienced the feeling of a collective, national loss induced by the peace treaty. In Central Europe the social and cultural processes within various groups of Jews before the First World War were determined by the imperial frames. While the nation states that came into being set the general frames, the attitude of the Jews towards modernity as a process, their religious and cultural strategies extended beyond these frames. The new borders drawn after the First World War fundamentally changed the social and cultural environment in which the earlier Jewish strategies had emerged and functioned; and shaped their attitude towards Hungarian symbolic politics. After 1920 there was also a change in the proportions of the different Jewish trends in Hungary. The borders appeared not only in their physical state as an unbridgeable reality that had to be dealt with but also created new borders in the organisation of groups and society