Table of Contents

Introduction.........................................................................................................................................3
Hungarian Jewry Before and After the Holocaust..............................................................................5
Jewish Intellectual History and the Case of Hungary.......................................................................14
Themes and Sources.........................................................................................................................22
Jewish Studies in the Horthy Era.....................................................................................................27
Identity.............................................................................................................................................30
Modern Traditions............................................................................................................................38
Values...............................................................................................................................................42
Contributions....................................................................................................................................46
Historicity........................................................................................................................................49
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................53
Intellectual Agendas in the Shadow of Looming Catastrophe.......................................................55
Conceptions of Jewish Culture.........................................................................................................58
From Creating to Saving Jewish Culture..........................................................................................64
Political Discourses..........................................................................................................................72
Narratives of Crisis..........................................................................................................................81
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................86
The Audible Voices of the Persecuted..............................................................................................91
Hungarian Jewish Scholars and the Horthy Era...............................................................................91
A Contemporary History of Nazism...............................................................................................100
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................110
Articulating the Unprecedented.....................................................................................................112
The DEGOB Interview Protocols...................................................................................................117
Remembering Buchenwald............................................................................................................122
Annihilation and Death Camps......................................................................................................132
Witnessing the Gas Chambers........................................................................................................138
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................145
Narrating Survival..........................................................................................................................148
The Privileged among the Terrorized.............................................................................................151
On the Devils Island, on Tortured Roads.......................................................................................163
Diverging Fates..............................................................................................................................169
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................175
Documenting Responsibility...........................................................................................................178
Nazism as Falsified Genealogy......................................................................................................179
The Profound Ambivalences of a Key Witness..............................................................................187
An Integrated History of the Holocaust in Hungary.......................................................................194
A Communist Panorama of the European Jewish Catastrophe.......................................................203
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................212
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................215
Biographical Notes..........................................................................................................................224
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................230
Main Primary Sources....................................................................................................................230
Main Secondary Sources. Books....................................................................................................231
Main Secondary Sources. Articles..................................................................................................252