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.