Position: Senior Research Fellow

Department: Modern History

Address: 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street

Room: B.5.39.

Phone: +36 1 224-6700/4655

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QUALIFICATIONS

Ph.D. in History, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Humanities, 2011

Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (DEA), Histoire moderne et contemporaine, Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), 1995

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

19–20^th Century, Social History, Cultural History, Hungarian Jewish History, Antisemitism

PROJECTS

Galician Jewish immigration in Hungary: myth and reality (1840–1945)

Identity dilemmas – generational dilemmas: the ways of young Jewish intellectuals (1890–1918)

Antisemitism in Hungary in the Dualist Period (1867–1918)

PUBLICATIONS

A complete list of publications: mtmt.hu

List of selected publications:

• “Jewish Emancipation as a Compromise.” In The Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: A Hungarian Perspective, edited by Gábor Gyáni, 229–56. New York – London: Routledge, 2022.
• “Mixing with Meshumads: Social Relations between Jews and Converted Jews in Modern Hungary.” In Jewish Studies at the Central European University IX., 2017–2019, edited by András Kovács, Michael L. Miller, and Carsten L. Wilke, 25–42. Budapest: Jewish Studies Project of the Central European University, 2020.
• “Narrating the Hungarian–Jewish National Past: The ’Khazar Theory’ and the Integrationist Jewish Scientific Discourse.” In Cultural Nationalism in a Finnish-Hungarian Historical Context, edited by Gábor Gyáni and Anssi Halmesvirta, 49–61. Budapest: MTA BTK TTI, 2018.
• “Hungarian Expectations and Jewish Self-Definitions, 1840–1914.” In Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary: The ‘Science of Judaism’ between East and West, edited by Tamás Turán and Carsten Wilke, 329–48. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2016.
• Zsidóságon innen és túl. Zsidók vallásváltása Magyarországon a reformkortól az első világháborúig. [Jewishness and Beyond: Jewish Conversions in Hungary from the Reform Era to the First World War.] Budapest: MTA BTK TTI, 2014.
• “The Social Integration of the Jewish Upper Bourgeoisie in the Hungarian Traditional Elites. A Survey of the Period from the Reform Era to World War One.” Hungarian Historical Review 3, no. 4 (2014): 818–49.
• “Entre émancipation et conversion. Dilemmes juifs en Hongrie dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle.” Histoire, économie & société 33, no. 4 (2014): 58-74.
• “Jews and Politics in Hungary in the Dualist Era, 1867 – 1914.” East European Jewish Affairs 39, no. 2 (2009): 167–86.
• “Music Halls and Jewish Identities in Budapest at the Turn of the Century.” In Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe: Day-to-Day History, edited by Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė and Larisa Lempertienė, 143–56. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
• “La femme juive de Budapest comme allégorie. L'image de la femme juive dans la littérature hongroise du tournant du siècle dernier.” Revue des Études Juives 161, no. 1–2 (2002): 159–78.