Communism's Jewish Question: Jewish Issues in Communist Archives

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2017

Communism's Jewish Question

Jewish Issues in Communist Archives

Edited by: András Kovács
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched

Volume 3 in the series Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Editionen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110411591

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About this book

In the last two decades a large amount of previously secret documents on Jewish issues emerged from the newly opened Communist archives. The selection of these papers published in the volume and stemming mostly from Hungarian archives will shed light on a period of Jewish history that is largely ignored because much of the current scholarship treats the Shoah as the end of Jewish history in the region. The documents introduced and commented by the editor of the volume, András Kovács, will give insight into the conditions and constraints under which the Jewish communities, first of all, the largest Jewish community of the region, the Hungarian one had to survive in the time of the post-Stalinist Communist dictatorship. They may shed light on the ways how “Jewish policy” of the Soviet bloc countries was coordinated and orchestrated from Moscow and by the single countries. The archival material will prove that the ruling communist parties were restlessly preoccupied with the “Jewish question.” This preoccupation, which kept the whole issue alive in the decades of communist rule, explains to a great extent its open reemergence in the time of transition and in the post-communist period.

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András Kovács, Central European University, Budapest.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	ix
Introduction: The “Jewish Issue” and the East- Central European Communist Systems Open Access Download PDF	1
I Communist Policies and the Jewish State. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	19
II The Eichmann Affair. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	75
III The Six-Day War and its Aftermath. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	127
IV The International Jewish Organisations, the Jewish Community and the State. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	217
V Mechanisms of Repression and the Jews. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	267
Biographical Notes Open Access Download PDF	354
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	361
Index of Persons Open Access Download PDF	367

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 371
Keywords: Kommunismus; Osteuropa; jüdische Geschichte; Archivöffnung

eBook

Published: June 12, 2017
ISBN: 9783110411591

Hardcover

Published: June 12, 2017
ISBN: 9783110411522

Paperback

Published: July 8, 2019
ISBN: 9783110660678