The Stranger at Hand
Antisemitic Prejudices in Post-Communist Hungary
Biographical note
András Kovács, PhD (1973) in Sociology, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary, Doctor of Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is Professor at Central European University, Budapest and senior researcher in the Institute for Ethnic and Minority Research at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His main research fields include Jewish identity and antisemitism in post-war Europe, socio-economic attitudes, and political choice.
Readership
Those who are interested in sociology and social-psychology of prejudice/antisemitism, problems of transition from communism into democracy, politics and society in post-communist Eastern-Europe, political psychology, Holocaust memory in Eastern Europe, and scholars working on different aspects of antisemitism.
Reviews
“[…]while the revival of anti-Semitism in post-communist East and Central Europe
has been examined on more than one occasion by competent pollsters in the past,
none of them matched the analytical finesse that Kovács displays in this book.”
Michael Shafir, Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări, vol iv, nr. 1 (2012).
has been examined on more than one occasion by competent pollsters in the past,
none of them matched the analytical finesse that Kovács displays in this book.”
Michael Shafir, Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări, vol iv, nr. 1 (2012).
Table of contents
Contents
1. Antisemitic Discourse after the Fall of Communism
2. Antisemitic Prejudices in Hungarian Society between 1994 and 2006
3. Antisemitic Prejudice and Historical Remembrance of the Holocaust
4. From Anti-Jewish Prejudice to Political Antisemitism?
1. Antisemitic Discourse after the Fall of Communism
2. Antisemitic Prejudices in Hungarian Society between 1994 and 2006
3. Antisemitic Prejudice and Historical Remembrance of the Holocaust
4. From Anti-Jewish Prejudice to Political Antisemitism?
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