Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics

Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust

By: Mária M. Kovács

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Hardcover | 1 June 1997

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In this important new historical survey of social and intellectual history, Maria Kovacs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies in professional groups - doctors, lawyers, engineers - in Hungary up to 1945. Kovacs's main emphasis is on the interwar period when unemployment, expansion of the welfare system, and competition for state jobs during the Great Depression, combined with crass anti-Semitism on the part of engineers, and medical associations, radically altered previously liberal policies of open entry and equal educational opportunity.
Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics uses extensive archival records to assess to what extent these new policies were dictated by authoritarian governments from above and to what extent they originated within the professions themselves. The story ends with the Holocaust, which sealed the fate of those professionals who had become victims of persecution under the German occupation of Hungary. This fascinating analysis, a copublication with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, will be of interest not only to scholars and students of Jewish history but also to the general reader interested in a case study of ethnic segregation within the learned professions.

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"This book helps us to understand, more than most other studies, the reasons behind the current resurrection of East European xenophobia, nationalism, and anti-semitism."--Istváv Deák, Institute on East Central Europe, Columbia University "[I]mpressive and convincing new study."--Austrian History Yearbook

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Tables	p. xiii
Glossary: Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Liberalism and Professionalization in the Nineteenth Century	p. 3
Two Paths of Professionalism: The Central European and the Anglo-American Patterns	p. 4
Professional Associations in Liberal Hungary	p. 6
The Medical Profession	p. 8
The Engineering Profession	p. 11
The Legal Profession	p. 14
Ethnic Tensions in the Professions	p. 15
The Dilemma: Preserving Equal Access	p. 22
From Professional to Political Ideology, 1900-1919	p. 26
The Neoconservative Criticism of the Liberal Professions	p. 28
The Illiberal Avant-garde at the Turn of the Century	p. 31
Radicalism in the Science-based Professions: The Sources	p. 35
The Doctors' Avant-garde in the Revolution of the Left	p. 38
Technocrats and the Left	p. 43
The Legal Profession Disbanded	p. 46
The Restrictive Reform of the Professions, 1920-1928	p. 49
Numerus Clausus in Europe and Hungary	p. 52
The Numerus Clausus of 1920	p. 54
Ethnic Division in the Professions: The Birth of Racist Associations	p. 62
Doctors and the Radical Right	p. 65
Ethnic Division of Medical Services	p. 69
Engineers and the Radical Right	p. 70
Lawyers and Tradition	p. 75
The Professions during the Depression	p. 82
Corporatist Reform in Medicine	p. 84
Technocracy in New Colors	p. 90
Lawyers under Corporatist Pressure	p. 97
Professions and Discrimination, 1938-1944	p. 101
Opposition to Discrimination: The Lawyers	p. 106
The Middle Course: The Engineers	p. 112
The Extremes of Discrimination: The Physicians	p. 116
The Government of the Right against the Radicals of the Right	p. 122
Epilogue	p. 128
Notes	p. 133
Selected Bibliography	p. 145
Index	p. 163
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Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust

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