The Jews of Hungary
Subtitle: history, culture, psychology
By: Raphael Patai.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 730
Subjects: Jews -- Hungary -- History.; Hungary -- Ethnic relations.
Description: The Jews of Hungary is the first comprehensive history in any language of the unique Jewish community that has lived in the Carpathian Basin for eighteen centuries, from Roman times to the present. Noted historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai, himself a native of Hungary, tells in this pioneering study the fascinating story of the struggles, achievements, and setbacks that marked the flow of history for the Hungarian Jews.

He traces their seminal role in Hungarian politics, finance, industry, science, medicine, arts, and literature, and their surprisingly rich contributions to Jewish scholarship and religious leadership both inside Hungary and in the Western world.

Patai's main focus within the overall history of the Hungarian Jews is their culture and their psychology. Convinced that what is most characteristic of a people is the culture which endows its existence with specific coloration, he devotes special attention to the manifestations of Hungarian Jewish talent in the various cultural fields, most significantly literature, the arts, and scholarship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 675-701) and index.