How they lived
Subtitle: the everyday lives of Hungarian Jews, 1867-1940
By: András Koerner
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Budapest
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789633860021
Subjects: Social life and customs; Jews; Social conditions; History; Ethnic relations; Pictorial works
Description: "This book consists of historical photographs and related text documenting the physical aspects of the lives of Hungarian Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the way they looked, the kind of neighborhoods and apartments they lived in, and the places where they worked"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The diversity of Hungarian Jewish lifestyles; the three aspects of lifestyles selected for examination; the structure of this book; other characteristics of Hungarian Jewish lifestyles; the group of people, the period, and the geographic entity that are the subject of this book; old photos as records of the way people lived; the advantages and limitations of describing a culture through pictures; the sources of photos; title: Historical overview; title: Hungarian Jews in the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries; title: What they looked like; title: Where they lived; title: Where they worked; title: Epilogue.