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Jewishness and Beyond
2024
Overview
Throughout the nineteenth century, Hungary's government steadily
dismantled obstacles that kept its rapidly expanding Jewish
communities from enjoying the full benefits of citizenship. The
state's concerted efforts to \"Magyarize\" Jews promoted Hungarian
language, culture, and sensibilities, but did not officially
require Jews to abandon their faith. Nevertheless, tens of
thousands of Hungarian Jews converted to Christianity during this
era, with conversion rates continuing to rise even as Judaism
gained full legal equality.
Jewishness and Beyond addresses the apparent
contradiction between these two trends. Despite the egalitarian
promises and laws of Hungary's liberal nationalist government, the
administration and traditional elites as a whole maintained a
persistent bias against Jews that spurred particularly high
conversion rates among the community's upper echelons. While
Christians never forgot converted Jews' origins and increasingly
thought of them in racialized terms, they also valued and generally
rewarded conversion and the symbolic gesture of baptism. Conversion
was an uneven and ever-shifting process in which gender and
occupation played key roles, and where the actual percentage of
converts within the total Hungarian Jewish population contrasted
sharply with both Christian and Jewish perceptions of its frequency
and spread.
Jewishness and Beyond , which can be read as an
introduction to the identity dilemmas of Hungarian Jews in the age
of emancipation, reveals the motivations and strategies behind the
conversions of Hungarian Jews, the complex reactions within and
outside of their communities, and converts' own grappling with
conversion's expected and unforeseen outcomes.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780253070500, 0253070503, 0253070538, 9780253070531, 0253070511, 9780253070517
