The 1938 First Vienna Award and the Holocaust in Slovakia

2015/04/01 by James M. Ward · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics #Eastern European Communism and Reforms #Central European national history #Slovak #The Holocaust #Ethnic group #Political science #Sociology #Law #Ethnology #Philosophy #Linguistics

paper · doi:10.1093/hgs/dcv004

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Abstract

The 1938 First Vienna Award obliged Slovakia to cede substantial territories to Hungary. For many Slovaks, the logic of ethnic borders transformed Jews into, or confirmed them as, “security threats,” accentuating the goal of ethnic homogeneity as a defense against Hungarian irredentism. Despite the relationships between the Award and the Holocaust of Slovak Jewry, the literatures on Slovak-Hungarian relations and the Holocaust in Slovakia remain disconnected. The work presented below proposes fusing them in favor of a transnational and regional understanding of the Holocaust.

Citations

• The Munich Crisis, 1938
• Eastern Europe as the Site of Genocide
• Army Officers and Foreign Policy in Interwar Hungary, 1918-41
• Storm-troopers in Slovakia: the Rodobrana and the Hlinka Guard
• “Abandon Your Role as Exponents of the Magyars”: Contested Jewish Loyalty in Interwar (Czecho)Slovakia

Cited by

• History of the Jews in Slovakia [wikipedia]