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About the Jewish Renaissance in Post-1989 Hungary
Author(s): Vincze, Kata Zsófia
Editor(s): Vasvári, Louise Olga
Date: 2011
Topics: Jewish Revival, Jewish Renewal, Ethnicity, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Post-1989
Abstract: In her article "About the Jewish Renaissance in Post-1989 Hungary" Kata Zsófia Vincze presents perspectives in order to address the following questions: what are the reasons for braking with the Jewish traditions and why did half a century later young Jews return to Hungary? What kind of new conflicts generate this newly found ethnicity? Vincze suggests that the ethnic renaissance of Hungarian Jewry produced the born again Jews (not only in religious terms), who no longer hide their ethnic origin, but choose to emphasize them by selecting "typical" ethnic characteristics in which they express their rediscovered ethnicity. Being openly Jewish many times means the building of new communities, participation in identity building, learning about forgotten history, the relearning of language, participation in online and offline political and cultural debates, and also engaging oneself in specific conflicts between minorities and the majority, and or between the different cultures.