Entries by Szilárd Csonthegyi

Jewish–Hungarian Conflicts and Strategies in the Béla Kun Regime, a Review-Essay of “When Israel is King” (Part 5 of 5)

Go to Part 1. Go to Part 2. Go to Part 3. Go to Part 4. 5118 words. The casualty figures of dictatorships, political systems, or simply certain policies and views, play a significant role in historiography and mainstream political activism. There is a reason the mere lowering of the number of victims of what […]

Jewish–Hungarian Conflicts and Strategies in the Béla Kun Regime, a Review-Essay of “When Israel is King” (Part 4 of 5)

Go to Part 1. Go to Part 2. Go to Part 3. 6207 words. After the elements examined so far, such as networking, press influence, cultural and political movements, and finally the question of the acquisition of power and Jewish activism, it is worthwhile to look more closely at these, in particular, the question of […]

Jewish–Hungarian Conflicts and Strategies in the Béla Kun Regime: Review-Essay of ”When Israel is King” (Part 3 of 5)

Go to Part 1 Go to Part 2 7600 words After the Jewish activism and strategies to gain power that we have seen so far, it is worth critically analyzing in more detail the persistent and unremitting misrepresentations, distortions and, shall we say, manipulations of a certain aspect of mainstream historiography.  The mainstream narrative is […]

Jewish–Hungarian Conflicts and Strategies in the Béla Kun Regime: a Review-Essay of “When Israel is King” (Part 2 of 5)

Go to Part 1. 5928 words The restlessness of the Jews in Hungary, especially after the “emancipation” of 1867, took on increasingly radical forms because, while some of them saw a future in Zionism, others saw an opportunity not in the creation of Israel, but in the transformation of their host society according to their […]

Jewish-Hungarian Conflicts and Strategies in the Béla Kun Regime: Szilárd Csonthegyi’s Review-Essay of “When Israel is King” (Part 1 of 5)

“An alien race has made its dominance known.” Cécile Tormay When Israel is King Jérôme and Jean Tharaud Antelope Hill Publishing, 2024; original French edition published: 1921 7200 words It was on the 21st of March, 1919, that a group of Bolsheviks seized control of Hungary for an infamous 133 days. That was 105 years […]