New Jewish Books
The 1920 Numerus Clausus Law in Hungary The Nazi 1933 Civil Service Law and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws are generally considered the first anti-Jewish decrees in Europe. Mária Kovács convincingly argues that ActV of...
Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History The seven essays in this volume focus such previously unexplored subjects as the world’s first cookbook printed in Hebrew letters, published in 1854, and a wonderful 19th-century Jewish...
The History and Memory of a Children’s Home for Holocaust and War Orphans (1945–1950) Foreword: Susan Rubin SuleimanTranslator: Maya J. Lo Bello Gaudiopolis (The City of Joy) was a pedagogical experiment that operated in...
This is the story of an illustrious Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking, Vienna-schooled, Columbia-educated and Harvard-formed, middle-class Jewish professor of politics and other subjects. Markovits revels in a rootlessness that offers him comfort, succor, and the inspiration...
András Koerner refuses to accept that the vanished world of preShoah Hungarian Jewry and its cuisine should disappear virtually without a trace and feels compelled to reconstruct its culinary culture. His book presents eating...
