Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics: Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust

by Mária M. Kovács

Overview

In this important new historical study, Mária Kovács examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies among professional groups--doctors, lawyers, engineers--in Hungary. Kovács's main emphasis is on the interwar period when unemployment, expansion of the welfare system, and competition for state jobs during the Great Depression, combined with crass anti-Semitism on the part of engineers and medical associations, radically altered previously liberal policies of open entry and equal educational opportunity. Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics analyzes to what extent these new policies were dictated by authoritarian governments from above and to what extent they originated within the professions themselves. The story ends with the Holocaust, which sealed the fate of those professionals who had become victims of persecution under the German occupation of Hungary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195358865
Publisher:	Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Publication date:	12/01/1994
Series:	Woodrow Wilson Press CO-Publication Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Lexile:	1520L (what's this?)
File size:	651 KB

About the Author

University of Wisconsin

Editorial Reviews

"This book helps us to understand, more than most other studies, the reasons behind the current resurrection of East European xenophobia, nationalism, and anti-semitism."—Istváv Deák, Institute on East Central Europe, Columbia University

"[I]mpressive and convincing new study."—Austrian History Yearbook

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