Maria M Kovács
Biographic Data
| ID | 906826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria M Kovács |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kovács |
| SIGNATURE | KOVÁCS M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation: The 1920 Numerus Clausus Law in Hungary
The Nazi 1933 Civil Service Law and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws are often considered the first anti-Jewish decrees in interwar Europe. Mária M. Kovács convincingly argues that Hungary’s numerus clausus law of 1920, which introduced a Jewish quota at Hungary’s institutions of higher learning, was, in fact, interwar Europe’s first antisemitic law. By defining—and discriminating against—Jews as a separate “racial” or “national” group, it abrogated the p…
The Ambiguities of External Minority Protection
This paper aims to describe the conceptual and political ambiguities inherent in the Minority Treaties concluded after the First World War through a presentation of how these treaties were regarded
The Politics of Dual Citizenship in Hungary
The study reviews the politics underlying the 2004 referendum in Hungary on whether the country should offer extraterritorial, non-resident citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living in the neighboring states of Romania, Slovakia, Serbia-Montenegro and the Ukraine. The study argues that the issue of dual citizenship for ethnic minorities and kin-states in Central and Eastern Europe is quite distinct from the issue of dual citizenship in West Europea…
The Problem of Continuity Between the 1920 Numerus Clausus and Post‐1938 Anti‐jewish Legislation in Hungary
Standards of self‐determination and standards of minority‐rights in the post‐communist era: A Historical Perspective
In the recent Yugoslav crisis, the decisions of the international community sparked off a sharp debate on the recognition of self‐determination claims, reminiscent of the debates in the aftermath of the First World War. This article compares and contrasts the principles and practices of the international community in these two periods. It draws a parallel between the simultaneous strengthening of self‐determination norms and minority protection n…
Ambiguities of emancipation: Women and the ethnic question in Hungary
In Hungary, women's emancipation happened under paradoxical circumstances, at a time when the general trend of Hungarian political development was not toward increasing liberalism and democracy, and equality of individuals, but precisely the opposite: toward a growing ethnic and social fragmentation of Hungarian society. This paradoxical timing of women's emancipation then shaped the politics of emancipation as well as the profile of Hungarian wo…
Liberal professions and illiberal politics: Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust
In this important new historical survey of social and intellectual history, Maria Kovacs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies in professional groups - doctors, lawyers, engineers - in Hungary up to 1945. Kovacs's main emphasis is on the interwar period when unemployment, expansion of the welfare system, and competition for state jobs during the Great Depression, combined with crass anti-Semitism on the part of engineers…
The Ideology of Illiberalism in the Professions: Leftist and Rightist Radicalism among Hungarian Doctors, Lawyers and Engineers, 1918-45
Luttes professionnelles et antisémitisme: Chronique de la montée du fascisme dans le corps médical hongrois, 1920-1944
Luttes professionnelles et antisémitisme. La montée de l'antisémitisme dans les années 1930 en Hongrie s'est doublée dans les milieux médicaux d'un renforcement de la compétition entre médecins juifs et non juifs pour les marchés sanitaires les plus lucratifs et d'un interventionnisme de plus en plus résolu de l'État pour réglementer ce marché (notamment par le développement des assurances-maladie). Les chambres de médecins, de type corporatiste,…
The Politics of Dual Citizenship in Hungary
The study reviews the politics underlying the 2004 referendum in Hungary on whether the country should offer extraterritorial, non-resident citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living in the neighboring states of Romania, Slovakia, Serbia-Montenegro and the Ukraine. The study argues that the issue of dual citizenship for ethnic minorities and kin-states in Central and Eastern Europe is quite distinct from the issue of dual citizenship in West Europea…
Standards of self‐determination and standards of minority‐rights in the post‐communist era: A Historical Perspective
In the recent Yugoslav crisis, the decisions of the international community sparked off a sharp debate on the recognition of self‐determination claims, reminiscent of the debates in the aftermath of the First World War. This article compares and contrasts the principles and practices of the international community in these two periods. It draws a parallel between the simultaneous strengthening of self‐determination norms and minority protection n…
The Problem of Continuity Between the 1920 Numerus Clausus and Post‐1938 Anti‐jewish Legislation in Hungary
Ambiguities of emancipation: Women and the ethnic question in Hungary
In Hungary, women's emancipation happened under paradoxical circumstances, at a time when the general trend of Hungarian political development was not toward increasing liberalism and democracy, and equality of individuals, but precisely the opposite: toward a growing ethnic and social fragmentation of Hungarian society. This paradoxical timing of women's emancipation then shaped the politics of emancipation as well as the profile of Hungarian wo…
Luttes professionnelles et antisémitisme: Chronique de la montée du fascisme dans le corps médical hongrois, 1920-1944
Luttes professionnelles et antisémitisme. La montée de l'antisémitisme dans les années 1930 en Hongrie s'est doublée dans les milieux médicaux d'un renforcement de la compétition entre médecins juifs et non juifs pour les marchés sanitaires les plus lucratifs et d'un interventionnisme de plus en plus résolu de l'État pour réglementer ce marché (notamment par le développement des assurances-maladie). Les chambres de médecins, de type corporatiste,…
The Ideology of Illiberalism in the Professions: Leftist and Rightist Radicalism among Hungarian Doctors, Lawyers and Engineers, 1918-45
Liberal professions and illiberal politics: Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust
In this important new historical survey of social and intellectual history, Maria Kovacs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies in professional groups - doctors, lawyers, engineers - in Hungary up to 1945. Kovacs's main emphasis is on the interwar period when unemployment, expansion of the welfare system, and competition for state jobs during the Great Depression, combined with crass anti-Semitism on the part of engineers…
Ambiguities of emancipation: Women and the ethnic question in Hungary
In Hungary, women's emancipation happened under paradoxical circumstances, at a time when the general trend of Hungarian political development was not toward increasing liberalism and democracy, and equality of individuals, but precisely the opposite: toward a growing ethnic and social fragmentation of Hungarian society. This paradoxical timing of women's emancipation then shaped the politics of emancipation as well as the profile of Hungarian wo…
Standards of self‐determination and standards of minority‐rights in the post‐communist era: A Historical Perspective
In the recent Yugoslav crisis, the decisions of the international community sparked off a sharp debate on the recognition of self‐determination claims, reminiscent of the debates in the aftermath of the First World War. This article compares and contrasts the principles and practices of the international community in these two periods. It draws a parallel between the simultaneous strengthening of self‐determination norms and minority protection n…
The Problem of Continuity Between the 1920 Numerus Clausus and Post‐1938 Anti‐jewish Legislation in Hungary
The Ambiguities of External Minority Protection
This paper aims to describe the conceptual and political ambiguities inherent in the Minority Treaties concluded after the First World War through a presentation of how these treaties were regarded
The Politics of Dual Citizenship in Hungary
The study reviews the politics underlying the 2004 referendum in Hungary on whether the country should offer extraterritorial, non-resident citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living in the neighboring states of Romania, Slovakia, Serbia-Montenegro and the Ukraine. The study argues that the issue of dual citizenship for ethnic minorities and kin-states in Central and Eastern Europe is quite distinct from the issue of dual citizenship in West Europea…
The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation: The 1920 Numerus Clausus Law in Hungary
The Nazi 1933 Civil Service Law and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws are often considered the first anti-Jewish decrees in interwar Europe. Mária M. Kovács convincingly argues that Hungary’s numerus clausus law of 1920, which introduced a Jewish quota at Hungary’s institutions of higher learning, was, in fact, interwar Europe’s first antisemitic law. By defining—and discriminating against—Jews as a separate “racial” or “national” group, it abrogated the p…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Ethnic group (3 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)