Századok – 2020
2020 / 5. szám - MOZAIKOK A MAGYARORSZÁGI ZSIDÓSÁG ÚJ- ÉS LEGÚJABB KORI TÖRTÉNETÉBŐL - Csíki Tamás: Befogadás és kirekesztés. Zsidók és magyarok együttélésének lokális percepciói a dualizmus kori helyi sajtóban
BEFOGADÁS ÉS KIREKESZTÉS 988 RECEPTION AND EXCLUSION The Perceptions of Jewish-Hungarian Coexistence in the Local Press in Post-1867 Hungary By Tamás Csíki SUMMMARY On the basis of three periodicals from three different Hungarian towns (Zalaegerszeg, Buda, and Sátoraljaújhely), the paper explores the perceptions among the local Jewish and Christian population of the Magyarization and economic and social roles of the Israelites, as well as of their faith-based events and group conflicts; that is, of all the factors used by historiography in the interpretation of assimilation or anti-Semitism. It also examines the patterns of cohabitation that these local papers offered to their readers. Whereas the idealized conservative national character and the safeguarding of the interests of the traditional society of craftsmen, as featured in the Magyar Paizs of Zalaegerszeg, were liable to raise anti-Semitic prejudices, the radical anti-Semitism of Buda és Vidéke as a symbolic language system aimed at strengthening the cohesion of the Hungarian Christian middle class, while the liberal Zemplén presented the ideal of emancipation and Magyarization as the values of the local intelligentsia and wealthy bourgeoisie.
