Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics : Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust (A co-publication with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
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In this important new historical study, M'aria Kov'acs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies among professional groups--doctors, lawyers, engineers--in Hungary. Kov'acs'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 analyzes 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.
Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics: Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust (A co-publication with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press),M'aria M. Kov'acs,A co-publication with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press,0195085973,Central Europe - History,Epidemiology,Europe - Austria & Hungary,History & Theory - General,Hungary,Intellectual History,Medical,Professional socialization,Professions,Social History,Social conditions,Sociological aspects,Sociology,20th century,European history: c 1750 to c 1900,European history: from c 1900 -,Germany,History / Austria & Hungary,History of specific racial & ethnic groups,History, World | European | Eastern Europe,Jewish studies,c 1800 to c 1900
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