Abstract
The Jews of Romania and Hungary had to bear a lot of difficulties after the setting of communist regimes. This paper intends to present the Jewish minority rather as a victim of communism than a beneficiary. The communism was not favorable for their community and religios life, some Jewish elites were imprisoned and, also, the Zionist leaders. The memoirs presented here come up with a reference of victims of the totalitarism. A view of ensemble of the Jewish minority in Romania and Hungary in the first years of communism is also drawn by this paper, based on the contemporary valuable historical writings.
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The Jews of Romania and Hungary had to bear a lot of difficulties after the setting of communist regimes
A view of ensamble of the Jewish minority in Romania and Hungary in the first years of communism is drawn by this paper, based on the contemporary valuable historical writings
The Ortodox faction rejected the assimilation of Hungarian society. They cultivated their traditions whithout getting involved in the political life and they did not constituted a danger for the Hungarian state: “Administration tolerated the fact that the Orthodox Jews refused to follow laws and decrees
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A new start for Inclusion and survivors, and elections. the isolation from the Jewish past, of Israel and the outside world. For the period that followed to the end of the war, Patai approaches the problem of Jewish emigration from Hungary This problem was an important one, because the Hungarian Jews had a lot of sufferings to bear as a consequence to fascism and of collaboration of Hungary with the Axis. In the first years after the war, Hungarian anti-Semitism found new possibilities of expression They had been existed problems with the restitution of Jewish houses, occupied by Hungarians, during the Fascist period, and who did not want to give them back. Anti-Semitism was increased by the fact that it existed important leaders of Communist Party of Jewish origin right immediately after the end of war such as Mátyás Rákosi, Erno Gero, Josef Revai, Zoltan Vass. Jews in the Soviet Satellites, Syracuse University Press, 1953, p.516
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