Jewish Studies Program, Historical Studies Program, and Office of Alumni/ae Affairs Present
Budapest’s Galician October: Hungarian Jews and the World War I Jewish Refugee Crisis
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Rebekah Klein-Pejšová '94
Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Purdue University
It is not difficult for us to imagine the sight of Budapest’s railway stations crowded with refugees after the summer of 2015. One hundred and one years earlier, in the early days of the First World War, Budapest’s train stations served as sites from which Galician Jewish refugees were sent to Vienna in transports arranged and financed by the Budapest Jewish Community. This talk probes why the Budapest Jewish community cooperated with the Hungarian wartime administration in clearing Austrian – that is, Galician Jewish – refugees from Hungarian territory, against a backdrop of the wider Hungarian Jewish response to the Jewish refugee crisis in Austria-Hungary. It offers insight into the often hasty and improvisational nature of wartime refugee assistance during the first mass civilian displacement crisis of the twentieth century.Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Purdue University
Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, a 1994 graduate of Bard College, is the author of Mapping Jewish Loyalties in Interwar Slovakia (Indiana University Press, 2015).
For more information, call 845-758-7543, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium