In this important historical account of the role that religion played in defining the political life of a modern national society, Paul A. Hanebrink shows how Hungarian nationalists redefined Hungarya liberal society in the nineteenth centuryas a narrowly Christian nation in the aftermath of World War I. Drawing on impressive archival research, Hanebrink uncovers how political and religious leaders demanded that Christian values influence public life while insisting that religion should never be reduced to the status of a simple nationalist symbol. In Defense of Christian Hungary also explores the emergence of the idea that a destructive Jewish spirit was the national enemy. In combining the historical study of antisemitism with more recent considerations of religion and nationalism, Hanebrink addresses an important question in Central European historiography: how nations that had been inclusive of Jews before World War I became rabidly antisemitic during the interwar period. As he traces the crucial and complex legacy of religion's role in shaping exclusionary antisemitic politics in Hungary, Hanebrink follows the process from its origins in the 1890s to the Holocaust and beyond. More broadly, In Defense of Christian Hungary squarely addresses the relationship between antisemitic words and antisemitic violence and between religion and racial politics, deeply contested issues in the history of twentieth-century Europe. The Hungarian example is a chilling demonstration of how religious nationalism can find a home even within a pluralist and tolerant civil society. 'Hanebrink in his excellent, well-researched study brings together important questions concerning nationalism, religion, and the ever-present issue of antisemitism. . . . The novel aspect of Hanebrink's work is to place religion at the center of the definition of nation and thereby connect it to the growth of antisemitism.'Peter Kenez, Slavic Review I agree with Paul A. Hanebrink that modern nationalism, rather than leaving old-fashioned religion and religiosity behind, today often forms a partnership with it and that in Hungary, religiosity was a concomitant part of nationalism. Hanebrink is right that, until now, no one has adequately demonstrated the overwhelming importance of antisemitism in formulating Catholic nationalist policy. Today, when there seems to be an international effort to awaken the Vatican and the Catholic Church in general to its responsibility for the 'success' of the Nazi Holocaust project, Hanebrink's contribution on the complex Hungarian solution is crucial.Istvan Deak, Seth Low Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University In this controversial but compelling volume, Paul A. Hanebrink argues that the main Christian churches of Hungary played a central role in the promotion of antisemitism during the interwar years. These claims will be hotly disputed, but he supports them with thorough research and thoughtful reasoning. Some will disagree with this book (it is likely to provoke a firestorm back in Hungary), but no one who works in the fields of East European history, Jewish history, or religious history more generally will be able to ignore it.Brian Porter, University of Michigan"
In this important historical account of the role that religion played in defining the political life of a modern national society, Paul A. Hanebrink shows how Hungarian nationalists redefined Hungarya liberal society in the nineteenth centuryas a narrowly Christian nation in the aftermath of World War I. Drawing on impressive archival research, Hanebrink uncovers how political and religious leaders demanded that Christian values influence public life while insisting that religion should never be reduced to the status of a simple nationalist symbol. In Defense of Christian Hungary also explores the emergence of the idea that a destructive Jewish spirit was the national enemy. In combining the historical study of antisemitism with more recent considerations of religion and nationalism, Hanebrink addresses an important question in Central European historiography: how nations that had been inclusive of Jews before World War I became rabidly antisemitic during the interwar period. As he traces the crucial and complex legacy of religion's role in shaping exclusionary antisemitic politics in Hungary, Hanebrink follows the process from its origins in the 1890s to the Holocaust and beyond. More broadly, In Defense of Christian Hungary squarely addresses the relationship between antisemitic words and antisemitic violence and between religion and racial politics, deeply contested issues in the history of twentieth-century Europe. The Hungarian example is a chilling demonstration of how religious nationalism can find a home even within a pluralist and tolerant civil society. 'Hanebrink in his excellent, well-researched study brings together important questions concerning nationalism, religion, and the ever-present issue of antisemitism. . . . The novel aspect of Hanebrink's work is to place religion at the center of the definition of nation and thereby connect it to the growth of antisemitism.'Peter Kenez, Slavic Review I agree with Paul A. Hanebrink that modern nationalism, rather than leaving old-fashioned religion and religiosity behind, today often forms a partnership with it and that in Hungary, religiosity was a concomitant part of nationalism. Hanebrink is right that, until now, no one has adequately demonstrated the overwhelming importance of antisemitism in formulating Catholic nationalist policy. Today, when there seems to be an international effort to awaken the Vatican and the Catholic Church in general to its responsibility for the 'success' of the Nazi Holocaust project, Hanebrink's contribution on the complex Hungarian solution is crucial.Istvan Deak, Seth Low Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University In this controversial but compelling volume, Paul A. Hanebrink argues that the main Christian churches of Hungary played a central role in the promotion of antisemitism during the interwar years. These claims will be hotly disputed, but he supports them with thorough research and thoughtful reasoning. Some will disagree with this book (it is likely to provoke a firestorm back in Hungary), but no one who works in the fields of East European history, Jewish history, or religious history more generally will be able to ignore it.Brian Porter, University of Michigan"
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