Hajd¿¿ Eszter

Jewish and Rightist: Going Against the Current: Hungarian Jewry with Right-wing Attitudes After Thechange of Regime Hajd¿¿ Eszter

After the change of regime in 1989, people voting tothe rightist and the leftist parties became enemiesin the Hungarian society. The Jews had to chooseamong the political parties in this surrounding. Someof them decided to go against the current. They arethe right-wing Jews. They lost their friends, hadarguments with their families, and they took the riskof the twofold exclusion. The book of Eszter Hajd¿¿deals with this group and with the political votingof the entire Hungarian Jewry. After analysing the peculiarities of the Hungarianpolitical public life after 1989, the author tacklesthe political attitude of the Hungarian Jews from theemancipation in 1867 on. She speaks about the newJewish identity forms, which evolved after thecommunist suppression. In the most significant part of the book the authorevaluates the real life stories of rightist Jews. The book is addressed to those, who are interested inthe Eastern-European societies formed after thechange of regime, in the lives of the Jewry living inthe Diaspora and to those, who are sensitive personsand are interested in the honest life stories ofpeople excluded by their societies.