Liberal professions and illiberal politics Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust - Kovács, Mária M. (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1994)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-161) and index
In this important new historical study, Maria Kovacs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies among professional groups-doctors, lawyers, engineers-in Hungary from 1867 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 analyses 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
Keywords: Geschichte 1900-1945; Geschichte 1850-1939; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes; Academici; Beroepsorganisaties; Liberalisme; Antisemitisme; Uitsluiting; Professional socialization; Professions / Sociological aspects; Social history; Sozialgeschichte; Professions -- Sociological aspects; Professional socialization -- Hungary; Antisemitismus; Berufsverband; Liberalismus; Akademiker; Politisches Denken; Ungarn