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<p>The Jews of Hungary is the first comprehensive history in any language of the unique Jewish community that has lived in the Carpathian Basin for eighteen centuries, from Roman times to the present. Noted historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai, himself a native of Hungary, tells in this pioneering study the fascinating story of the struggles, achievements, and setbacks that marked the flow of history for the Hungarian Jews. He traces their seminal role in Hungarian politics, finance, industry, science, medicine, arts, and</p> <p>literature, and their surprisingly rich contributions to Jewish scholarship and religious leadership both inside Hungary and in the Western world.</p> <p>In the early centuries of their history Hungarian Jews left no written works, so Patai had to piece together a picture of their life up to the sixteenth century based on documents and reports written by non-Jewish Hungarians and visitors from abroad. Once Hungarian Jewish literary activity began, the sources covering the life and work of the Jews rapidly increased in richness. Patai made full use of the wealth of information contained in the monumental eighteen-volume series of the Hungarian Jewish A

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Author

Raphael Patai

Publisher

Wayne State University Press, Wayne State University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814341926

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Humanities