Examines the social and political history of the Jews of Miskolc - the third largest Jewish community in Hungary - and presents the wider transformation of Jewish identity during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It explores the emergence of a moderate, accomodating form of traditional Judaism that combined elements of tradition and innovation, thereby creating an alternative to Orthodox or Neolog Judaism. This form of traditional Judaism reconciled the demands of religious tradition with the expectations of Magyarization and citizenship, thus allowing traditional Jews to be patriotic...
Examines the social and political history of the Jews of Miskolc - the third largest Jewish community in Hungary - and presents the wider transformati...
