Talk:List of Hungarian Jews

Steven Brust

Unless someone can confirm that Steven Brust is Jewish, I'm removing him (especially given all the Christian Mythology in 'To Reign In Hell') -Udzu 09:30, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Péter Nádas

Can anyone please confirm if the acclaimed contemporary writer Péter Nádas is of Jewish descent? This certainly appears to be so from apparently autobiographic elements in his novel: 'A Family Story'. --RCSB 30 April 2005

In the List? Is he Jewish? - "unconfirmed"-people, etc

• Paul Nemenyi, Jewish
• Stephen Heller, Jewish

• George Pólya
• Melchior Lengyel(born Lebovics)
• Carl Rakosi, poet
• Marcel Grossmann
• George Rosencrantz
• Erno Laszlo
• Lipót Schulhof
• George Lusztig
• Stephen Ullmann(ja)
• David Weiss Halivni
• Ignaz Ziegler
• Ilona Feher
• Lajos Biro(born Blau; same with Ormandy)
• Ádám Politzer
• Georges Politzer
• Angelo Heilprin
• Louis Heilprin, American encyclopedist ([1])
• Alexander Trauner

--Sheynhertz-Unbayg 09:22, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ignaz Semmelweiss was not a Jew. See [2] --Maxn 02:45, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

See also

category:Hungarian Jews

Jewish Encyclopedia articles

Merge with Eastern European Jews

• It doesn't make much sense to have the Czech and Ukrainian Jews on a list together and not have the Hungarian Jews on the same list (as the Jews in those countries were much more numerous than in Hungary). So, I propose a merge to cut down on the lists and make everything more organized.(anon)

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• • Mmm. Hungarian Jewish community (Unger) has it's world. like Litvak.(Sheynhertz)

There are more jews that lived in Ukraine than Hungary but you don't see a separate page for them. These extra pages are nothing more than fluff as Hungary is as applicable to East Europe as any of the others on that list.(anon)

Hungary is not an Eastern European country, so why should Hungarian Jews be put on a list of Eastern European Jews? The Czech Republic and its predecessor Czechoslovakia are/were not Eastern European countries either. If this list is to be combined with any other, perhaps combine the Hungarian, Czech, Slovene and Austrian Jews on a "List of Central European Jews".(anon)

Question of size - this list looks big enough to be viable on its own. - Newport 18:43, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

I searched "Hungary" on Jewish Encyclopedia. --User:Sheynhertz-Unbayg/sig 08:16, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[3]

I disagree! The Jews of Hungary were a unique community, greatly assimilated and intertwined with general Hungarian culture and history. The history of Hungary without its Jews is incomplete in a qualitatively different way than the history of Poland would be without the history of Polish Jews. From some historical point onward (I do not know which it was), the Jews in Hungary ceased to be seperate from the general populace. This cannot be said of Jews in any other part of Eastern Europe. Hungarian Jews were closer to their fellow countrymen than they were to the shtetl Jews of Eastern Europe. They contributed mightily to Hungarian arts, science and politics. In fact, nearly every famous Hungarian personality, whether it be in mathematics (von Neumann, Erdos), chess (Polgar sisters), music (Mahler, Gyorgy Ligetti) literature (Kertesz, Nadas?) and so on, has had Jewish origins. These facts cannot be discounted. Hands off Hungarian Jews! Do not attempt to rewrite history and force them into the xenophobic club they havn't been interested in for generations. RCSB 20:57, 11 December 2005 (UTC)