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

• Author: Kovács, Mária M.
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest : : Central European University Press,, 2023.; {copy}2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 pages)

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.