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Transleithanian Paradise - A History of the Budapest Jewish Community, 1738-1938 (Paperback)
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Transleithanian Paradise - A History of the Budapest Jewish Community, 1738-1938 (Paperback)
Series: Central European Studies
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Transleithanian Paradise: A History of the Budapest Jewish
Community, 1738-1938 traces the rise of Budapest Jewry from a
marginal Ashkenazic community at the beginning of the eighteenth
century into one of the largest and most vibrant Jewish communities
in the world by the beginning of the twentieth century. This was
symptomatic of the rise of the city of Budapest from three towns on
the margins of Europe into a major European metropolis.Focusing on
a broad array of Jewish communal institutions, including
synagogues, schools, charitable institutions, women's associations,
and the Jewish hospital, this book explores the mixed impact of
urban life on Jewish identity and community. On the one hand, the
anonymity of living in a big city facilitated disaffection and
drift from the Jewish community. On the other hand, the
concentration of several hundred thousand Jews in a compact urban
space created a constituency that supported and invigorated a
diverse range of Jewish communal organizations and activities.
Transleithanian Paradise contrasts how this mixed impact played out
in two very different Jewish neighborhoods. Terezvaros was an older
neighborhood that housed most of the lower income, more
traditional, immigrant Jews. Lipotvaros, by contrast, was a newer
neighborhood where upwardly mobile and more acculturated Jews
lived. By tracing the development of these two very distinct
communities, this book shows how Budapest became one of the most
diverse and lively Jewish cities in the world.
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