Transleithanian Paradise: A History of the Budapest Jewish Community, 1738–1938 traces the rise of Budapest Jewry from a marginal Ashkenazic community at the beginning of the eighteenth century into one of the largest and most vibrant Jewish communities in the world by the beginning of the twentieth century. This was symptomatic of the rise of the city of Budapest from three towns on the margins of Europe into a major European metropolis.
Focusing on a broad array of Jewish communal institutions, including synagogues, schools, charitable institutions, women’s associations, and the Jewish hospital, this book explores the mixed impact of urban life on Jewish identity and community. On the one hand, the anonymity of living in a big city facilitated disaffection and drift from the Jewish community. On the other hand, the concentration of several hundred thousand Jews in a compact urban space created a constituency that supported and invigorated a diverse range of Jewish communal organizations and activities.
Transleithanian Paradise contrasts how this mixed impact played out in two very different Jewish neighborhoods. Terézváros was an older neighborhood that housed most of the lower income, more traditional, immigrant Jews. Lipótváros, by contrast, was a newer neighborhood where upwardly mobile and more acculturated Jews lived. By tracing the development of these two very distinct communities, this book shows how Budapest became one of the most diverse and lively Jewish cities in the world.
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Preface
Part I. Beginnings, 1738–1838
1. Introduction: Budapest as a Laboratory of Urban Jewish Identity
2. The Óbuda Kehilla and the Magnate-Jewish Symbiosis
3. Terézváros and the Pest Jewish Community
Part II. Coming of Age, 1838–1873
4. Washing Away the
Ancien Régime : The Great Flood and the Rebranding of Budapest, 1838–1873
5. A Model Neolog Community: From Nordau’s Pest to Herzl’s Budapest
6. The Pest Jewish Women’s Association: A Cautious Path to the Mainstream
7. The Other Side of Budapest Jewry: Orthodox and Lower-Income Jews
Part III. After Trianon
8. Paradise Waning: War, Revolution, and the New Budapest, 1914–1938
9. 1938 and Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Howard N. Lupovitch is professor of history and director of the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University. He is the author of Jews at the Crossroads: Tradition and Accommodation during the Golden Age of the Hungarian Nobility, 1729–1878 and Jews and Judaism in World History, and coeditor of Poland and Hungary: Jewish Realities Compared (Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, volume 31).
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