Publications of Kovács, A.

Pető A. Digitalized Memories of the Holocaust in Hungary in the Visual History Archive. In: Braham RL, Kovács A, editors. The Holocaust in Hungary. Budapest; New York: Central European University Press; 2016. p. 253-61.
Pető A. A holokauszt digitalizált emlékezete Magyarországon a VHA gyűjteményében. In: Braham RL, Kovács A, editors. A Holokauszt Magyarországon hetven év múltán. Budapest: Múlt és Jövő Könyvkiadó; 2015. p. 220-9.
Kovács MM, Braham R. A numerus clausus és a zsidótörvények. In: Kovács A, Braham RL, editors. A holokauszt Magyarországon hetven év múltán. Történelem és emlékezet. Budapest: Múlt és Jövő; 2015.

Antisemitic Prejudice and Political Antisemitism in Present-Day Hungary

The article analyzes the newest survey results on antisemitic prejudices, antisemitic political discourses, and political antisemitism in present-day Hungary. According to the research findings, during the first decade and a half after the fall of communism, 10%-15% of the Hungarian adult population held a strong antisemitic prejudice. Surveys conducted after 2006 show not oly an increase in the absolute percentage of antisemites, but also an increase in the proportion of antisemites who embed their antisemitism in the political context. This phenomenon is linked with the appearance on the political scene of Jobbik, a more or less openly antisemitic party. When examining the causes of antisemitism, the most interesting finding was that the strength of antisemitic feelings is region-ally different and that these differences correlate with the strength of Jobbik’s support in the various regions. Accordingly, we hypothesized that support for a far-right party is not a cause of antisemitism, but conversely should be regarded as a factor that mobilizes attitudes leading to antisemitism. Thus, antisemitism is—at least in large part—a consequence of an attraction to the far right rather than an explanation for it. While analyzing antisemitic discourse, we found that the primary func-tion of the discourse is not to formulate anti-Jewish political demands but to establish a common identity for groups that, for various reasons and motives, have turned against the liberal parliamentary system that replaced communism.

Vidra Z, Kovács A, Horváth A. Identities and Modernities in Europe (IME). Kingston University London, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences ; 2011.
Vidra Z, Kovács A, Horváth A. Identity construction programs of the state and the EU. Kingston University London, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences ; 2010.
Jewish Studies at the CEU. Vol 5. Kovács A, Miller M, editors. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Project; 2009.
Kovács A, Miller M. Introduction. In: Jewish Studies at the Central European University, 2005-2007. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Project; 2009. p. 1-4.
Kovács A. Introduction and Documents on Hungarian-Israeli Relations 1957-1969. Kovács A, Miller M, editors. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Project; 2009.
Vidra Z, Kovács A, Horváth A. The state of the art: various paths to modernity. Kingston University London, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences ; 2009.

A másik szeme : zsidók és antiszemiták a háború utáni Magyarországon

The Eye of the Other : Jews and Antisemites in Post-War Hungary

Kovács A. Judenfeindschaft als politische Kode : Antisemitismus in Ungarn. In: Rensmann L, Schoeps JH, editors. Feindbild Judentum : Antisemitismus in Europa. Berlin: Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg; 2008. p. 377-98.
Kovács A. Volt-e magyar ’68? In: Schmidt M, editor. Dimenziók éve – 1968. Budapest: XX. Század Intézet; 2008. p. 198-209. Abstract

Volt-e magyar ’68?

This article was presented at an international conference, 22-23, May 2008, Budapest.Was there a Hungarian 1968?

A filozófus félelme az erdőszélen

György Bence: Political Philosophy Papers 1990-2006

Kovács A. Hannah Arendt jelentősége. In: Lánczi A, Horváth M, editors. Korrajz 2007 : a XX. Század Intézet évkönyve. Budapest: XX. Század Intézet; 2007. p. 143-9.
Jewish Studies at the CEU. Vol 4. Kovács A, Miller M, editors. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2006.
Kovács A. The Eichmann-Case : Introduction and 12 documents from Hungarian Archives. In: Kovács A, Andor E, editors. Jewish Studies at the Central European University, 2003-2005. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2006. p. 212-58.
Kovács A. Religiosity, Praxis and Tradition in Contemporary Hungarian Jewry. In: Ben-Rafael E, Gergely T, Gorny Y, editors. Jewry between tradition and secularism : Europe and Israel compared. Leiden: Brill; 2006. p. 43-9.
Kovács A. A holokauszt emlékezete és a magyar társadalom : A holokauszt-múzeum fogadtatása a magyar közvéleményben. In: Braham RL, editor. Tanulmányok a holokausztról, IV. Budapest: Presscon Könyvkiadó; 2006. p. 289-305.
Kovács A. Hungarian Jews’ Perception of Anti-Semitism. In: Braham R, Chamberlin BS, editors. The Holocaust in Hungary : sixty years later. Vol 678. Boulder: Columbia Univ. Press; 2006. (East European monographs; vol 678).
Kovács A, Miller M. Introduction. In: Kovács A, Andor E, editors. Jewish Studies at the Central European University, 2003-2005. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2006. p. 1-4.
Kovács MM. The Case of the Teleki Statue : New Debates on the History of the Numerus Clausus in Hungary. In: Kovács A, Miller M, editors. Jewish Studies at the Central European University, 2003-2005. Vol 4. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2006. p. 191-208. (Jewish Studies at the CEU; vol 4).

A kéznél lévő idegen : antiszemita előítéletek a mai Magyarországon

Stranger at hand : Antisemitic prejudices in post-communist Hungary

Kovács A. Az antiszemitizmus percepciója és a csoportközi kommunikáció. In: Molnár J, editor. A holokauszt Magyarországon európai perspektívában. Budapest: Balassi; 2005. p. 309-17.
Kovács A. The role of political identity code in defining the boundaries of public and private : The example of latent antisemitism. In: Wodak R, Chilton P, editors. A new agenda in (critical) discourse analysis : theory, methodology, and interdisciplinarity. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins; 2005.
Kovács A. NATO and Hungarian Public Opinion. In: Eder K, Spohn W, editors. Collective memory and European identity : the effects of integration and enlargement. Aldershot: Ashgate; 2005.
Kovács A. Identitások és lojalitások. In: Kovács N, Osvát A, Szarka L, editors. Etnikai identitás, politikai lojalitás nemzeti és állampolgári kötődések. Budapest: Balassi Kiadó; 2005. p. 67-73. Abstract

Identitások és lojalitások

Identities and loyalities

Kovács A. The Historians Debate about the Holocaust in Hungary. In: Vasvári LO, Tötösy de Zepetnek S, editors. Imre Kertész and Holocaust literature. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press; 2005. p. 138-47.
Kovács A. Jüdische Gruppen und Identitätsstrategien im post-kommunistischen Ungarn. In: Mihok B, editor. Ungarn und der Holocaust : Kollaboration, Rettung und Trauma. Vol 56. Berlin: Metropol; 2005. (Reihe Dokumente, Texte, Materialien; vol 56).
Planning for Jewish Communities. Vol 2004. Kovács A, editor. London: Institute for Jewish Policy Research; 2004.
Jewish Studies at the CEU. Vol 3. Kovács A, Andor E, editors. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2004.
Kovács A. Két kiegyezés. In: Cieger A, editor. A kiegyezés. Budapest: Osiris; 2004. Abstract

Két kiegyezés

Two compromises

Kovács A. NATO-Beitritt und nationale Identität. In: Jäger S, Januschek F, editors. Gefühlte Geschichte und Kämpfe um Identität. Münster: Unrast; 2004.
Kovács A. The communist party state and the jews : Exploration and the study of sources. In: Kovács A, Andor E, editors. Jewish Studies at the Central European University : public lectures, 2002-2003. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2004. p. 259-62.
Kovács A. Hungarian Communist Policy and the Six-Day-War in 1967. In: Kovács A, Andor E, editors. Jewish Studies at the Central European University : public lectures, 2002-2003. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2004. p. 263-80.
Kovács A. Introduction. In: Kovács A, Andor E, editors. Jewish Studies at the Central European University : public lectures, 2002-2003. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2004. p. 1-4.
Kovács A. Hungarian Jewish Politics from the End of the Second World War until the Collapse of Communism. In: Mendelsohn E, editor. Jews and the state : dangerous alliances and the perils of privilege. Vol 19. New York: Oxford University Press; 2004. p. 124-56. (Studies in contemporary Jewry; vol 19).
Kovács A. NATO and Hungarian Public Opinion. In: Kovács MM, Lom P, editors. Studies on nationalism from CEU. Budapest: Central European University. Nationalism Studies Program; 2004. p. 149-69.
Miller M. Reluctant Kingmakers : Moravian Jewish Politics in Late Imperial Austria. In: Kovács A, Andor E, editors. Jewish Studies at the Central European University : public lectures, 2002-2003. Vol 3. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2004. p. 111-23. (Jewish Studies at the CEU; vol 3).

National Identities in Times of Supra-National Challenges : The Debates on NATO and Neutrality in Austria and Hungary

After the end of the Cold War, vigorous discussions developed about new alternatives in security policy in almost all the countries of the former Warsaw Pact & in neutral & non-aligned states, including Austria & Hungary. The comparison of the debates in Austria & Hungary over the last 50 years, focusing on presidential speeches on the one hand & on opinion polls on the other (among many other data sources), shed light on the identity policy aspect of these discourses. The argumentation strategies used by the supporters & by the opponents of different security policies were analyzed, illustrating the fact that in Austria, neutrality is still perceived as an integral part of national identity, whereas in Hungary, joining NATO is viewed as a possibility of finally "belonging" to the West. 5 Tables, 3 Figures, 34 References. Adapted from the source document.

Kovács A. NATO and Hungarian Public Opinion. In: Kovács A, Wodak R, editors. NATO, Neutrality and National Identity : the case of Austria and Hungary. Wien: Böhlau; 2003. p. 461-83.
Kovács A. Preface. In: Kovács A, Wodak R, editors. NATO, Neutrality and National Identity : the case of Austria and Hungary. Wien: Böhlau; 2003.
Kovács A. Jewish Groups and Identity Strategies in Post-Communist Hungary. In: Gitelman ZY, Kosmin BA, Kovács A, editors. New Jewish identities : contemporary Europe and beyond. Budapest: CEU Press; 2003. p. 211-42.
Kovács A, Wodak R. Nationale Identitäten in Zeiten Supra-Nationaler Herausforderungen. In: Gruber H, Menz F, Panagl O, editors. Sprache und politischer Wandel. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang; 2003.

Magyar zsidópolitika : Magyar zsidó politika a háború végétől a kommunista rendszer bukásáig

Jewish Politics in Hungary between the end of the war and the fall of the Communist system

Zsidók és zsidóság a mai Magyarországon : egy szociológiai kutatás eredményei

Jews and Jewry in contemporary Hungary

Zsidók a mai Magyarországon : Az 1999-ben végzett szociológiai felmérés eredményeinek elemzése

Jews in contemporary Hungary

Jewish Studies at the CEU. Vol 2. Kovács A, Andor E, editors. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2002.
Kovács A. Un débat entre historiens dans les années 80 : la tragédie des Juifs hongrois. In: Bechtel D, editor. Écriture de l'histoire et identité juive : l'Europe ashkénaze, XIXe-XXe siècle. Vol 55. Paris: Les Belles Lettres; 2002. p. 83-94. (Histoire; vol 55).
Kovács A. Assimilatione e politica ebraica nell’Ungheria moderna. In: Gruber RE, editor. Ebrei europei dieci anni dopo la fine del socialismo reale : 1990 – 2000. Vol 68. Roma: Unione delle Comunità Ebraiche Italiane; 2002. (La rassegna mensile di Israel; vol 68; no 1). Abstract

Assimilatione e politica ebraica nell’Ungheria moderna

Jewish Assimilation and Jewish Politics in modern HungaryArticle published in the special issue of the journal "La Rassegna Mensile di Israel".

Kovács A. Idegengyűlölet és a nyugat-európai szélsőjobboldal. In: Csepeli G, Örkény A, editors. Gyűlölet és politika. Budapest: Minoritás Alapítvány; 2002. Abstract

Idegengyűlölet és a nyugat-európai szélsőjobboldal

Xenophobia and the Extreme-Right in the West

Kovács A. Jews in Post-war Hungary. In: Szalai A, editor. In the land of Hagar : the Jews of Hungary : history, society and culture. Tel Aviv: Beth Hatefutsoth; 2002.
Kovács A. Introduction : Jewish Studies at the Central European University, 1999-2001. In: Kovács A, Andor E, editors. Jewish Studies at the Central European University, 1999-2001. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2002. p. 1-3.
Kovács A. Az antiszemitizmus percepciója a mai magyar zsidó társadalomban. In: Karsai L, Molnár J, editors. Küzdelem az igazságért : tanulmányok Randolph L. Braham 80. születésnapjára. Budapest: Magyarországi Zsidó Hitközségek Szövetsége; 2002. Abstract

Az antiszemitizmus percepciója a mai magyar zsidó társadalomban

The perception of anti-Semitism among Hungarian Jews today

Kovács A. Zsidó csoportok és identitásstratégiák a mai Magyarországon. In: Zsidók a mai Magyarországon : Az 1999-ben végzett szociológiai felmérés eredményeinek elemzése. Budapest: Múlt és Jövő; 2002. Abstract

Zsidó csoportok és identitásstratégiák a mai Magyarországon

Jewish Groups and Identity Strategies in Contemporary Hungary

Miller M. Samson Raphael Hirsch and the Revolution of 1848. In: Kovács A, Andor E, editors. Jewish Studies at the Central European University, 1999-2001. Vol 2. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2002. p. 223-38. (Jewish Studies at the CEU; vol 2).

Public Identity in Defining the Boundaries of Public and Private : The Example of Latent Anti-Semitism

The extent of latent anti-Semitic prejudice in Hungary is examined. Survey data from adults indicate that anti-Semitic respondents felt greater latency pressure than non-anti-Semitic participants; differences between high latency & low latency non-anti-Semites were clear; & right- & left-wing anti-Semitic respondents expressed their dislike of Jews in distinct terms & perceived their capacity to articulate such aversion differently. It is concluded that leftist anti-Semites are much more aware of their latency than are their right-wing counterparts; moreover, anti-Semitism appears to function as a cultural & political code in contemporary Hungary. 8 Tables, 19 References. J. W. Parker

Tanulmányok az antiszemitizmusról. Kovács A, Ivony É, editors. Budapest: ELTE Szociológiai Intézet; ELTE-UNESCO Kisebbségszociológiai Tanszék; 2001. Abstract

Tanulmányok az antiszemitizmusról

Essays on anti-Semitism

Kovács A. The Strength of Antisemitism in Present-Day Hungary. In: Phalet K, Örkény A, editors. Ethnic minorities and inter-ethnic relations in context : a Dutch Hungarian comparison. Aldershot: Ashgate; 2001.
Kovács A. Ungarn. In: Kotowski EV, Schoeps JH, Wallenborn H, editors. Handbuch zur Geschichte der Juden in Europa. Darmstadt: Primus; 2001. Abstract

Ungarn

Hungary

Zsidók és magyarok : a mai magyar egyetemi hallgatók sztereotípiái

Jews and Hungarians : Stereotypes of Hungarian University Students today

Jewish Studies at the CEU. Vol 1. Kovács A, Andor E, editors. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2000.
Kovács A. Jewish Assimilation and Jewish Politics in modern Hungary. In: Kovács A, Andor E, editors. Jewish Studies at the Central European University : public lectures, 1996-1999. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2000. p. 109-17.
Kovács A. Introduction : Jewish Studies at the Central European University 1996-1999. In: Kovács A, Andor E, editors. Jewish Studies at the Central European University : public lectures, 1996-1999. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program; 2000. p. 7-9.
Kovács A. Vallás és vallásosság a mai magyar egyetemisták körében. In: Nagy PT, editor. Oktatáspolitika és vallásszabadság : állam – egyház – iskola – társadalom a 20. században. Budapest: Új Mandátum; 2000. Abstract

Vallás és vallásosság a mai magyar egyetemisták körében

Religion and religiosity among university students in contemporary Hungary

Kovács A. Measuring latent antisemitism. Review of sociology of the Hungarian Sociological Association. 2000;6.
Kovács A, of for the of Antisemitism HU. Analysis of current trends in antisemitism. Vol 16. Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism; 1999.
Nagyítás : szociológiai könyvek. Vol 23. Kovács A, editor. Budapest: Új Mandátum Könyvkiadó; 1999. Abstract

Nagyítás : szociológiai könyvek

The modern anti-Semitism

Erős F, Kovács A, Lévai K. Wie ich schließlich bemerkt habe, daß ich Jude bin. In: Haber P, editor. Jüdisches Städtebild Budapest. Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Verlag; 1999. Abstract

Wie ich schließlich bemerkt habe, daß ich Jude bin

How did I find out that I was a Jew? : Interviews

Kovács A. Antiszemitizmus Magyarországon az 1990-es években. In: A modern antiszemitizmus. Budapest: Új Mandátum Kiadó; 1999. p. 395-418. Abstract

Antiszemitizmus Magyarországon az 1990-es években

Antisemitism in Hungary after 1990

Kovács A. Az antiszemitizmus mint társadalomtudományos probléma. In: A modern antiszemitizmus. Budapest: Új Mandátum Kiadó; 1999. p. 9-34. Abstract

Az antiszemitizmus mint társadalomtudományos probléma

Antisemitism as a problem of social sciences

Kovács A. Antisemitic prejudices in present-day Hungary. In: Enyedi Z, Erős F, editors. Authoritarianism and prejudice : Central European perspectives. Budapest: Osiris Kiadó; 1999. p. 155-91.

A zsidóüldözések, a Holocaust és a történelmi felelősség a mai magyar közvéleményben

The Holocaust, the Persecution of Jews and Historical Responsibility in the Hungarian Public Opinion

Kovács A. Wissen aus der Stube. In: Romhányi I, editor. Ungarn : 26 Gespräche über Wende und Wandel. Berlin: Edition Q; 1999.
Kovács A. Antisemitismus im heutigen Ungarn. Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung. 1999;8. Abstract

Antisemitismus im heutigen Ungarn

Antisemitism in Hungary today

A latens antiszemitizmus mérése

The results of a 1995 survey (N = 1,500 adults) measuring the strength & persistence of anti-Semitic attitudes in Hungary are analyzed in terms of gender, age, residence, & education. Analysis shows that fully 25% of the Hungarian population can be considered anti-Semitic. These findings are subject to a latency analysis, investigating the suppression of honest responses when questions involve prejudice. It is concluded that the 1995 estimates of the presence of anti-Semitism should be increased to 27%-35%. 10 Tables, 13 References. Adapted from the source document.

Kovács A. Die demokratische Linke und die Gleichschaltung in Osteuropa : Das Beispiel Ungarn. In: Faulenbach B, Potthoff H, editors. Sozialdemokraten und Kommunisten nach Nationalsozialismus und Krieg : zur historischen Einordnung der Zwangsvereinigung. Essen: Klartext; 1998. p. 123-51. Abstract

Die demokratische Linke und die Gleichschaltung in Osteuropa : Das Beispiel Ungarn

The Democratic Left and the Establishment of Soviet Rule in Eastern Europe : The Hungarian Case

A különbség köztünk van : az antiszemitizmus és a fiatal elit

The difference is between us : Antisemitism and the young elite

Kovács A. A magyar szociáldemokrácia és az 1956-os forradalom. In: Kőrösi Z, Tóth PP, editors. Pártok l956 : válogatás 1956-os pártvezetők visszaemlékezéseiből. Budapest: 1956-os Intézet; 1997. Abstract

A magyar szociáldemokrácia és az 1956-os forradalom

The Hungarian Social-Democracy and the Revolutioin in 1956

Kovács A, Fischer G. Anti-Semitism Among Hungarian University and College Students. In: Braham RL, Pók A, editors. The Holocaust in Hungary : fifty years later. Vol 477. New York: Columbia University Press; 1997. p. 681-716. (East European monographs; vol 477).

Asszimiláció és identitáskeresés

Assimilation and search for identity

Book review : The Cultural Comissar with the Human Touch

This article reviews the book “Aczél és korunk” by Sándor Révész.

Book review: Aczél és korunk

This article reviews the book "Aczél és korunk" by Sándor Révész.Aczél and our age : Comments on a book

Kovács A, for University) SI. Sociological papers. Vol 5. Ramat-Gan: Sociological Institute for Community Studies (Bar-Ilan University); 1996. Abstract

Sociological papers

Examines the resurgence of open ethnocentrism & anti-Semitism in postcommunist Hungary to address whether anti-Semitism will remain on the fringes or become a central way of thinking, which depends on the elites' capacity to tolerate it. Interview data gathered in 1992 from 1,000 college students indicated that 32% held collective negative beliefs about Jewish people; factors related to this included social, educational, & financial status of subjects' parents & type & location of educational institution attended. Analysis revealed two types of anti-Semitic views: xenophobic & identity forming. The dynamics & possibility of spread of these two ways of thinking are discussed. 28 Tables, 1 Figure, 43 References. T. Shimane

Did the Losers Really Win? An Analysis of Electoral Behavior in Hungary in 1994

Hungarian behavior during the 1994 elections is used to challenge purveying deep-freeze theories blaming citizen unrest on a historical buildup of state-inflicted aggravation. An attempt is made to identify the portions of the Hungarian population who helped successors to the Communist Party win the elections, drawing on (1) sociodemographic data gathered from a poll of 1,000 voters from Hungary's six major political parties during the Apr 1994 elections; (2) a 1995 poll (N = 1,500 respondents) to track public anomie regarding market developments since 1991; & (3) a comparison of levels of trust between Hungarian Socialist Party members & the rest of the electoral body. By following attitudes among all voting groups, a number of different attitude coalitions were shown to have developed as a result of random & momentary political events. 1 Table, 3 Diagrams, 5 References. D. Bajo

Kovács A. Jews and Politics in Hungary. In: Medding PY, editor. Values, interests and identity : Jews and politics in a changing world. Vol 11. New York: Oxford University Press; 1995. (Studies in contemporary Jewry; vol 11).
Kovács A. Előszó. Budapesti Negyed. 1995;3(2):3-4.

Parties and voters : On electoral victory of Hungarian socialists

Two lectures on the electoral victory of the Hungarian socialists : Part I.The outcome of the Hungarian election obviously continues the surprising trend taking place since the fall of Communism. It is important to stress that the party system in Hungary has the absence of tradition as its main characteristic. Thus, the newly formed traditional parties, like the Small Holders and the Social Democratic parties, were unable to attain solid support. The important parties after 1989 were new parties, created by different elite groups formed during the late Kadarist period. In the period of party formation, a stratum with many common roots, with many similar social-demographic, stratificational and mobility characteristics, was differentiated into different parties. This fact has strengthened the strong need to develop party identities which was already present due to the absence of traditions. But it also explains why generational experience has become a central dimension of party development and party choice and elite groups orient themselves in fundamentally different directions. It is for this reason that old cultural conflicts and polarities, like the conflict between populist and urbanist intellectuals, has reemerged so strongly, and that symbolic questions concerning the coat of arms, holidays, historical events and personages play such a huge role in political debates.

Kovács A. Előítéletes projekció-e a becslés? Replika : szociológiai viták és kritikák : társadalomtudományi folyóirat. 1995;6(17-18):241-5.

Zsidók Budapesten

Jews in Budapest