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The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation : The 1920 Numerus Clausus Law in Hungary.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kovács, Mária M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Front matter
  • Title page
  • Contents
  • Acronyms
  • List of Figures
  • Tables
  • Foreword to the English Translation
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • The nationalities quota
  • An explicit Jewish quota
  • The risks and the double-talk
  • Ideology and apologia
  • The refugee question and the war years
  • Lack of students during the numerus clausus
  • The socio-political reasoning
  • The overrepresentation of Jews among graduate professionals
  • Anti-Semitism and the "provocative law"
  • Primarily a Jewish Law
  • The "idea" of a racial clause
  • The fate of the racial quota after 1928: The myth of "repeal"
  • The reinstatement of an explicit Jewish quota
  • The Genesis of the Law
  • The numerus clausus as an education law
  • Numerus clausus without the Jewish quota?
  • "An orgiastic cacophony of the basest human motives"
  • Numerus clausus as anti-Jewish law-Russian precedents
  • Nationality, religion, race
  • Camouflaged changes to the legal status of Jews
  • "Jewish by birth, by origin, and by race"
  • "Positive discrimination" or a foreign policy maneuver?
  • A breakthrough: A decision from the government
  • The solution: A hidden Jewish quota
  • Passing the law
  • The ideology behind the Jewish quota: Prohászka
  • The "proportionality" program: Alajos Kovács
  • The "proportionality" program and the extreme Right
  • Pál Teleki's role
  • István Bethlen and the numerus clausus
  • The First Decade of the Numerus Clausus and the Racial Clause
  • The quantitative impact of the Jewish quota on Jewish graduate professionals
  • About statistics at the time
  • Data
  • The reduction in the number of Jewish students in the first year of the Jewish quota
  • The fate of the Jewish students with "acquired rights" in the higher academic years
  • The Jewish quota for first-year admissions
  • The Jewish quota at the universities of Pécs and Szeged.
  • Not enough Christian applicants in Pécs and Szeged
  • Lack of students in the years of the numerus clausus
  • Intimidation of the universities of Pécs and Szeged
  • Women
  • Selection, counter-selection, and selective dropout within the numerus clausus system
  • Selective dropout
  • The impact of the Jewish quota in certain graduate professions
  • Hungarian Jewish students abroad
  • The Jewish quota in everyday life
  • Anti-Jewish violence at the universities
  • The quantitative measure of the numerus clausus among the non-Jewish professional class
  • The Amendment of the Numerus Clausus Law and the Restoration of the Explicit Jewish Quota
  • "The secret disapproval of many"
  • Geneva, 1922
  • Lucien Wolf and the League of Nations
  • The optants issue and the Treaty of Trianon
  • Hungarian diplomacy and its liabilities
  • "Our nation's grief cannot be the fountainhead of our law"
  • Geneva, 1925: The Hungarian government makes a promise
  • The amendment
  • The eradication of the "yellow badge"
  • The professional quota: "A legerdemain, a risky game"
  • The liberal critique
  • The League of Nations and the amendment
  • Discrimination after the amendment of 1928
  • The fight for-and against-outstanding students
  • The strengthening of discrimination in higher education after 1934
  • The reinstatement of the Jewish quota for the universities: The Second Jewish Law
  • Chronology
  • Appendixes
  • Appendix No. 1
  • Appendix No. 2
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back cover.

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