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Transleithanian Paradise
Howard N. Lupovitch
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Neuzeit bis 1918
Beschreibung
Transleithanian Paradise: A History of the Budapest Jewish Community, 1738–1938 traces the rise of Budapest Jewry from a marginal Ashkenazic community at the beginning of the eighteenth century into one of the largest and most vibrant Jewish communities in the world by the beginning of the twentieth century. This was symptomatic of the rise of the city of Budapest from three towns on the margins of Europe into a major European metropolis.
Focusing on a broad array of Jewish communal institutions, including synagogues, schools, charitable institutions, women’s associations, and the Jewish hospital, this book explores the mixed impact of urban life on Jewish identity and community. On the one hand, the anonymity of living in a big city facilitated disaffection and drift from the Jewish community. On the other hand, the concentration of several hundred thousand Jews in a compact urban space created a constituency that supported and invigorated a diverse range of Jewish communal organizations and activities.
Transleithanian Paradise contrasts how this mixed impact played out in two very different Jewish neighborhoods. Terézváros was an older neighborhood that housed most of the lower income, more traditional, immigrant Jews. Lipótváros, by contrast, was a newer neighborhood where upwardly mobile and more acculturated Jews lived. By tracing the development of these two very distinct communities, this book shows how Budapest became one of the most diverse and lively Jewish cities in the world.
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"Inventive and wide-ranging, Howard Lupovitch's book surveys two momentous centuries in the long history of Budapest Jewry. It takes us deep inside the Jewish community and its many institutions: synagogues, burial societies, hospitals, schools, and women's associations. But the book also steps back and looks at pivotal external events, from the great flood of 1838 to the hammer blows of World War I and its aftermath. Throughout Lupovitch illuminates the creativity, diversity, and vibrancy of the Jews of Budapest."
"An erudite, comprehensive, and lucid account of Budapest Jewish life in the modern period. Lupovitch's ability to provide a nuanced analysis of Jewish communal developments within the broader trajectory of Hungarian politics is outstanding and should make this book of interest to a wide audience."
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Ashkenazi, Hungary, Jewish emancipation, Judaism, Jewish identity, antisemitism, Budapest, Obuda, Jewish communities, anti-Semitism, Hungarian Jews, Jews in the city, Neolog, Magnate-Jewish symbiosis, Dohany Street Synagogue, Magyarization, Jewish neighborhoods, assimilation, urban Jewish history, ghetto