- Hardcover: 309 pages
- Publisher: New York University Press (31 July 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0814735037
- ISBN-13: 978-0814735039
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,973,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Shocks by its very frankness... Absorbing and excellently translated, it is a valuable contribution to Holocaust scholarship." - Association of Jewish Libraries"A most valuable addition to our knowledge of a most painful chapter in the histories of both Hungary and the Jewish people." - Yehuda Bauer,Jona M. Machover Professor of Holocaust Studies,Institute of Contemporary Jewry,Hebrew University of Jerusalem "A valuable contribution ... Its publication will fill a long-felt need." - Nathaniel Katzburg,Professor Emeritus in Jewish History,Bar-Ilan University"Based on rich documentation, it contains within it a great deal of information unknown to scholars to date... A real contribution to our understanding of anti-Semitism in Hungary." - Yisrael Gutman, Yad Vashem,The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem"Demonstrates the crucial nexus between the long held antipathy of the Catholic and Protestant churches in Hungary toward Hungarian Jewry and the deportation of more than 500,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in 1944." - Religious Studies Review
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The complicity of the Hungarian Christian church in the mass extermination of Hungarian Jews by the Nazis is a forgotten episode in the history of the Holocaust. Using previously unknown correspondence and other materials, Herczl recreates the church's actions and its disposition toward Hungarian Jewry. He provides a scathing indictment of the Church's lack of compassion toward - and even active persecution of - Hungary's Jews during World War II.
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The christian roots of modern antisemitism
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The author, a Hungarian Jew who survived the holocaust, provides a well written and well documented account of Christian anti-Semitism in Hungary, focusing on the years from 1880 to 1944. He traces the roots of modern Hungarian anti-Semitism to a widely believed accusation of Jewish ritual murder made in 1882. The anti-Semitic sentiment which crystallized around this incident soon became a powerful force in politics and an explicit organizing theme for Hungarian Christians. The book goes on to show how religious arguments played a crucial role in the passing of increasingly harsh anti-Semitic legislation in the years leading up to the war. Herczl builds his case using extensive quotes from church members from all of the major Christian denominations involved in this debate and provides evidence showing that their actions were sanctioned by those at the highest levels of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. These quotes amply support the author's contention that for the Hungarian churches, anti-Semitism remained "a matter of principle, not opportunism." The most extreme result of this racist-Christian milieu before the German takeover was the formation of the clero-fascist Arrow Cross party. The final chapter of the book is devoted to the year 1944 and deals with the Nazi's takeover of the government and the final deportation of the Jewish population, events for which Christianity had paved the way.
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