In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944, Paul A. Hanebrink (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006) x + 255 pp., 39.95
In this readable and carefully argued book, Paul Hanebrink follows the evolution of church contributions to nationalist discourse in Hungary. Taking 1944 as his end date (although a useful final chapter extends the story into the postwar period), Hanebrink seeks to situate church responses to the ma...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 118-120 |
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| Summary: | In this readable and carefully argued book, Paul Hanebrink follows the evolution of church contributions to nationalist discourse in Hungary. Taking 1944 as his end date (although a useful final chapter extends the story into the postwar period), Hanebrink seeks to situate church responses to the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews within a longer history of the churches' exclusion of Jews from their constructions of “Christian Hungary.” However this is no simplistic teleological study tracing a direct line between Christian antisemitism and the trains for Auschwitz. Rather, Hanebrink patiently unravels the complexities of church views of “the nation” and the place of the Jew. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn007 |