Hungary and the Jews

In regard to antisemitism, relates to atrocities committed after the Commune of 1919. Special units of the victorious White army killed hundreds of Jews in pogroms throughout the country. Right-wing racist organizations terrorized Jewish students at the universities and perpetrated acts of terror even in 1922-23. The Hungarian government introduced a Numerus Clausus (1920) in higher education, which remained in effect until 1928. A decade later, the anti-Jewish laws restricted Jewish participation in the public sphere; the Second Anti-Jewish Law (1939) restricted Jewish converts to Christianity as well. Dwells on the texts of those laws and describes the murderous attack near the Dohany synagogue in 1939. The second part of the book presents 17 documents: memoranda, letters by foreign diplomats, reports, and memoirs.