10. Anti-Jewish Quotas in Interwar Poland: Toward a Reconsideration of the Appeal of Fascism in East Central Europe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. List of Tables VIII
4. Introduction: Antisemitic Arithmetic 1
5. PART I Anti-Jewish Quotas in Central Europe Historical Roots
6. 1. Quotas and the “Jewish Question” in Imperial Austria 35
7. 2. The (Great) Numbers Game: Demographic Anxieties and Quotas in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Romania and the Global Antisemitic Imaginary 67
8. 3. The Prehistory of the Hungarian Numerus Clausus Law: Political Antisemitism in Hungary, 1895–1914 110
9. 4. Jews in the Hungarian Medical Profession, 1782–1947: A Sociohistorical Report 139
10. PART II. Down by Law: The Numerus Clausus in Hungary
11. 5. Mária M. Kovács, the Historian 173
12. 6. The Hungarian Numerus Clausus: Ideology, Apology, and History, 1919–45 180
13. 7. From Numerus Clausus to Numerus Nullus 219
14. PART III. The Politics of Exclusion in Central Europe
15. 8. Antisemitic Pacts: Student Fraternities and the Exclusion of Jews at Austrian Universities in the Interwar Period 245
16. 9. From Numerus Clausus Demands to Antisemitic Laws: Student Antisemitism in Romania, 1888–1938 280
17. 10. Anti-Jewish Quotas in Interwar Poland: Toward a Reconsideration of the Appeal of Fascism in East Central Europe 310
18. 11. “Troublesome Foreigners”: The Protests against Jewish Students at Universities in Vienna, Bratislava, and Brno, and the Dispute over Quotas in Czechoslovakia, 1929–32 330
19. PART IV. Jewish Responses, Jewish Fates
20. 12. Next Year in Brno? Brno’s Significance for Hungarian Jews in the Age of the Numerus Clausus and Beyond 357
21. 13. “You Can Become Anything, Except a Pediatrician”: Exploring the Gendered Impact of Hungary’s Numerus Clausus Law 385
22. 14. A Foreign Policy Fiasco? Reactions to the Hungarian Numerus Clausus in Weimar Berlin 412
23. Afterword: The Enduring Legacy of Quotas 433
24. Index 437