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In the last two decades a large amount of previously secret
documents on Jewish issues emerged from the newly opened Communist
archives. The selection of these papers published in the volume and
stemming mostly from Hungarian archives will shed light on a period
of Jewish history that is largely ignored because much of the
current scholarship treats the Shoah as the end of Jewish history
in the region. The documents introduced and commented by the editor
of the volume, Andras Kovacs, will give insight into the conditions
and constraints under which the Jewish communities, first of all,
the largest Jewish community of the region, the Hungarian one had
to survive in the time of the post-Stalinist Communist
dictatorship. They may shed light on the ways how "Jewish policy"
of the Soviet bloc countries was coordinated and orchestrated from
Moscow and by the single countries. The archival material will
prove that the ruling communist parties were restlessly preoccupied
with the "Jewish question." This preoccupation, which kept the
whole issue alive in the decades of communist rule, explains to a
great extent its open reemergence in the time of transition and in
the post-communist period.
A unique collection of essays that deal with the intriguing and
complex problems connected to the question of Jewish identity in
the contemporary world. Concerning the problem of identity
formation, this book addresses very important issues: What is the
content or meaning of Jewish identity? What has replaced religion
in defining the content of Jewishness? How do people in different
age groups construct their Jewish identity? In most cases, the
authors have combined a variety of research methods: they drew
samples or relied on the sample surveys of others; used personal
interviews with respondents who are especially knowledgeable about
their own Jewish communities, or based their research on
participant observation of particular communities or communal
institutions.
Unified Field Theory was an expression first used by Einstein in
his attempt to unify general relativity with electromagnetism.
Unified Field Theory and Occam's Razor attempts to provide real
answers to foundational questions related to this unification and
should be of high interest to innovative scientists. A diverse
group of contributing authors approach an old problem with an
open-mindedness that presents a new and fresh perspective. The
following topics are discussed in detail in the hope of a fruitful
dialogue with all who are interested in this subject:This highly
original book brings together theoretical researchers and
experimentalists specialized in the areas of mathematics and
epistemology, theoretical and experimental physics, engineering,
and technology. For years they have worked independently on topics
related to the foundations and unity of physics and have had
numerous overlapping ideas in terms of using Clifford algebra and
spinors. Within the book, new technology applications are outlined
and theoretical results are complemented by interpretations of
experimental data.
According to most historians, the Holocaust in Hungary represented
a unique chapter in the singular history of what the Nazis termed
as the "Final Solution" of the "Jewish question" in Europe. More
than seventy years after the Shoah, the origins and prehistory as
well as the implementation and aftermath of the genocide still
provide ample ground for scholarship. In fact, Hungarian historians
began to seriously deal with these questions only after the 1980s.
Since then, however, a consistently active and productive debate
has been waged about the history and interpretation of the
Holocaust in Hungary and with the passage of time, more and more
questions have been raised in connection with its memorialization.
This volume includes twelve selected scholarly papers thematically
organized under four headings: 1. The newest trends in the study of
the Holocaust in Hungary. 2. The anti-Jewish policies of Hungary
during the interwar period 3. The Holocaust era in Hungary 4.
National and international aspects of Holocaust remembrance. The
studies reflect on the anti-Jewish atmosphere in Hungary during the
interwar period; analyze the decision-making process that led to
the deportations, and the options left open to the Hungarian
government. They also provide a detailed presentation of the
Holocaust in Transylvania and describe the experience of Hungarian
Jewish refugees in Austria after the end of the war.
In the last two decades a large amount of previously secret
documents on Jewish issues emerged from the newly opened Communist
archives. The selection of these papers published in the volume and
stemming mostly from Hungarian archives will shed light on a period
of Jewish history that is largely ignored because much of the
current scholarship treats the Shoah as the end of Jewish history
in the region. The documents introduced and commented by the editor
of the volume, Andras Kovacs, will give insight into the conditions
and constraints under which the Jewish communities, first of all,
the largest Jewish community of the region, the Hungarian one had
to survive in the time of the post-Stalinist Communist
dictatorship. They may shed light on the ways how "Jewish policy"
of the Soviet bloc countries was coordinated and orchestrated from
Moscow and by the single countries. The archival material will
prove that the ruling communist parties were restlessly preoccupied
with the "Jewish question." This preoccupation, which kept the
whole issue alive in the decades of communist rule, explains to a
great extent its open reemergence in the time of transition and in
the post-communist period.
The Cinema of Bela Tarr is a critical analysis of the work of
Hungary's most prominent and internationally best known film
director, written by a scholar who has followed Bela Tarr's career
through a close personal and professional relationship for more
than twenty-five years. Andras Balint Kovacs traces the development
of Tarr's themes, characters, and style, showing that almost all of
his major stylistic and narrative innovations were already present
in his early films and that through a conscious and meticulous
recombination of and experimentation with these elements, Tarr
arrived at his unique style. The significance of these films is
that, beyond their aesthetic and historical value, they provide the
most powerful vision of an entire region and its historical
situation. Tarr's films express, in their universalistic language,
the shared feelings of millions of Eastern Europeans.
The Cinema of Bela Tarr is a critical analysis of the work of
Hungary's most prominent and internationally best known film
director, written by a scholar who has followed Bela Tarr's career
through a close personal and professional relationship for more
than twenty-five years. Andras Balint Kovacs traces the development
of Tarr's themes, characters, and style, showing that almost all of
his major stylistic and narrative innovations were already present
in his early films and that through a conscious and meticulous
recombination of and experimentation with these elements, Tarr
arrived at his unique style. The significance of these films is
that, beyond their aesthetic and historical value, they provide the
most powerful vision of an entire region and its historical
situation. Tarr's films express, in their universalistic language,
the shared feelings of millions of Eastern Europeans.
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