Dénesi Tamás (szerk.): Collectanea Sancti Martini - A Pannonhalmi Főapátság Gyűjteményeinek Értesítője 5. (Pannonhalma, 2017)
I. Tanulmány
60 Schilde René: Zsidó diákok a pápai bencés algimnáziumban... In the course of this research it could be established that the majority of the local denominational debates (the orthodox–neolog debate, the accusation of Germanism, debates raised by Saturday absolutions), the town’s economic balking in the period of the Dual Monarchy and as one of its effects the decrease of the number of Jewish inhabitants in the town, and the denominational conflicts of national scale (e.g., the anti-Semitic atrocities because of the Tiszaeszlár Affair) did not perceptibly influence either the practice of the Jewish families in Pápa when choosing a school, or the quota of pupils belonging to the Israelite denomination in the Benedictine Lower Grammar School of Pápa. In this respect, in the period of the Dual Monarchy, two major break-ing points of decisive role can be identified: starting two denominational schools, and a debate raising the question religious tolerance, respectively. As a consequence of the Orthodox Israelite Secondary Modern School started in 1878, the quota of the Jewish pupils in the Benedictine Lower Grammar School decreased from 48,3% to 30,6% in a year, and the earlier proportions were not re-established after the clos-ing-down of the secondary modern school, either. In the 1880’s and 1890’s, the quota of the pupils belonging to the Israelite denomination varied between 25% and 35%. In the years following the press-debate of 1898 questioning the religious tolerance of the Benedictines in Pápa, and the start of the Israelite Comprehensive School in 1899, a new wave of significant decrease of the quota can be pointed out: between 1898 and 1908, the quota of the Jewish pupils in the Benedictine Lower Grammar School of Pápa dropped to a quarter of its previous level (from 24,7% to 6,2%). This declining trend was not reversed even by the improvements of the infrastructure in the Benedictine educational institution (opening a new school-building in 1898) or by developing the lower grammar school into an upper grammar school (1911).
