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jpr / Planning for Jewish Communities: report No.1 - 2004

Jews and Jewry in contemporary Hungary:
results of a sociolgical survey

Edited by András Kovács

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Forward This report on contemporary Hungarian Jewry, which comes on the sixtieth anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary, represents both a continuation of and a new phase in the work of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) on diaspora Jewish communities.	48KB
Editor's introduction After the political emancipation of the Jews in Hungary in 1867, they became one of the most flourishing communities in Europe.	76KB
1 Demographic character Owing to the sampling methods used (see Appendix 1), the survey data on the demographic make-up of the Jewish population need to be analysed with care.	90KB
2 Geographical distribution One of the most striking features of the Jewish population in Hungary is its high degree of spatial concentration.	91KB
3 Socio-economic indicators Education In terms of educational achievements and professional choices,5 the survey data show that the profile of Hungarian Jewry differs distinctly from that of the Hungarian population as a whole.	115KB
4 Religeous and ethnic background Examining the ancestry and religious backgrounds of the respondents was one of the most challenging aspects of the survey.	69KB
5 Religeous observance and cultural traditions The survey attempted to chart the transmission of various elements of Jewish religious observance and cultural traditions across generations.	89KB
6 Identity The assessment of how respondents defined their personal identity was approached from several angles.	138KB
7 Attitudes towards Hungarian Jewry and its relations with non-Jews The survey set out to examine attitudes towards two different aspects of the situation of the Jewish population of Hungary: first, its socio-political influence and overall standards of living; and, second, its perception of the level of antisemitism and anti- Jewish prejudice.	100KB
8 Ideological, economic and social attitudes As a means of gauging the level of Jewish integration, we compared the viewpoints of Jews and non-Jews on issues such as liberalism, conservatism, xenophobia and anomie, as well as on what constitutes 'left' and 'right' in politics.	96KB
9 Summary Some of the findings of this survey of contemporary Hungarian Jewry are, perhaps, predictable given the modern social history of Hungarian Jews and the consequences of the Holocaust in Hungary.	51KB
Appendicies 1 Methodology: sample selection and data collection Appendicies 2 Assessing the size of the Hungarian Jewish population, 1945-2000	85KB
Bibliography Recent JPR publications	62KB
Front and back cover	36KB

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