גילוי מחדש של שורשי הילדות: מפגשו המחודש של יעקב כץ עם הונגריה – השלכות על מחקר מדעי היהדות (אנגלית)

Adam S . Ferziger [ * 192 ] richness of Hungarian Jewish culture and history . More specifically, I would point to three factors : first, the renaissance of Jewish life in post - Communist Hungary, uneven and complex as it is, has generated the transformation and growth of Jewish research institutions as well as dramatically expanded Jewish studies within prominent local universities . Second, the details of the saga of Hungarian Jewry during the Holocaust were contested during the early decades of the State of Israel with such intensity that this became a national political dispute . Excavating the related controversies under less ideologically charged circumstances has more recently occupied the scholarly community and encouraged novel thinking . Finally, a key role in raising the stature of the academic study of Hungarian Jewry was played, especially in Israel and the United States, by one of the twentieth century’s most influential Jewish historians, the late Hungarian - born Jacob...  אל הספר