Double Exile
Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States, 1919-1945
This is a social history of refugees escaping Hungary after the Bolshevik-type revolution of 1919, the ensuing counterrevolution, and the rise of anti-Semitism. Largely Jewish and German before World War I, the Hungarian middle class was torn by the disastrous war, the partitioning of Hungary in the Treaty of Trianon, and the numerus clausus act XXV in 1920 that seriously curtailed the number of Jews admitted to higher education. Hungary's outstanding future professionals, whether Jewish, Liberal or Socialist, felt compelled to leave the country and head to German-speaking universities in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. When Hitler came…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-03911-331-6
- EAN: 9783039113316
- Produktnummer: 21964583
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 504 S.
- Masse: H22.5 cm x B15.0 cm x D2.6 cm 701 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Reihenbandnummer: 7
- Gewicht: 701
Über den Autor
The Author: Tibor Frank, M.A., Dr.Univ., Ph.D., D.Litt. is Professor of History and Director of the School of English and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. He has taught frequently at universities in the USA (UCSB, UCLA, Nevada-Reno, Columbia). In 2002 he won the prestigious German Humboldt Research Award and spent the academic year 2003-04 in the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. Professor Frank is a corresponding fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London.
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