[last update]
The following links represent a selection only. Sincere gratitude to Professor Michael Shafir for his assistance in tracking relevant media.
See also (older) HUNGARY SECTION
17 August 2014. Politics.hu: ‘Far-right sympathizers clash with protesters at World War II monument by Zoltán Szécsi.
28 July 2014. Politics.hu: ‘US warms against rehabilitation of reputation of antisemitic figures’ by MTI.
20 July 2014. MailOnline: ‘Hungary sets up disputed 1944 memorial’ by Associated Press (AP).
20 July 2014. Hungarian Spectrum: ‘A historical exchange: Mária Schmidt versus Mária M. Kovács’ by Eva Balogh.
13 July 2014. Hungarian Spectrum: ‘Mária Schmidt: Another person who chose the wrong profession’ by Eva Balogh.
12 July 2014. Hungarian Spectrum: ‘Sándor Szakály: Portrait of a historian’ by Eva Balogh.
29 June 2014. Hungarian Spectrum: ‘Undisguised antisemitism of Viktor Orbán’s chief ideologue, the historian Mária Schmidt’ by Eva Balogh.
6 June 2014. Court rules Jobbik cannot be called “far-right”‘.
1 June 2014. Jerusalem Post: ‘Jews on the Eastern Front’ [review of Robert Rozett’s Conscripted Slaves] by Efraim Zuroff.
23 May 2014. Politics.HU: ‘US senators, congressmen ask Orbán to reconsider WW2 occupation monument’ by MTI.
9 May 2014. Hungarian Spectrum: ‘Hungary and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
10 April 2014. JTA: ‘Hungarian Jewish leader resigns’.
22 March 2014. Hungarian Spectrum: ‘The assault on the historical memory of the Holocaust’ by Randolph L. Braham.
20 March 2014. Hungarian Spectrum: ‘Memorial conference in Washington and Gergely Prőhle, representative of the Hungarian government’.
9 March 2014. Hungarian Spectrum: ‘Paul A. Shapiro’s remarks on The Holocaust in Hungary: Evolution of a Genocide‘.
9 February 2014. New York Times: ‘Hungarian Jews threaten boycott of official Holocaust events’ by Reuters.
9 February 2014. JTA: ‘Hungary’s main Jewish umbrella votes to boycott state Holocaust commemorations’.
8 February 2014. Hungarian Spectrum: ‘The siege of Budapest. Neo-Nazis remember the “breakthrough” of February 11, 1945’.
5 February 2014. Forward: ‘Hungarian Jews reject state money for Holocaust anniversary events’ by JTA.
2 February 2014. Hungarian Spectrum: ‘An open letter to Mrs. Annette Lantos’ by Mária Vásárhelyi.
2 February 2014. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Is Tom Lantos’s widow on Hungarian government’s list of “useful foreigners”?’
1 February 2014. Economist: ‘Statute of limitations: a row about a statue reignites controversy over the Nazi occupation’.
January 2014. Hungarian Spectrum: ‘A monument of self-pity and self-justification’ by István Deák.
27 January 2014. New York Times: ‘Holocaust scholar returns top award to Hungary in Protest’ by Dan Bilefsky.
26 January 2014. Hungarian Spectrum: ‘Randolph L. Braham’s open letter’.
26 January 2014. Forward: ‘Holocaust historian returns Hungarian honor over “whitewashing” of Shoah’ by JTA.
23 January 2014. Hungarian Spectrum: ‘The Orban government’s war on multiple fronts’ [including: ‘Protest of Hungarian historians against the planned German occupation memorial].
22 January 2014. DefendingHistory.com: ‘Wiesenthal Center blasts Hungarian government’s latest distortion of the Holocaust’.
17 January 2014. Hungarian Spectrum: ‘Sándor Szakály, the new head of the Veritas Historical Institute, is embarking on rewriting Hungarian history’ by Eva S. Balogh.
10 January 2014. Tablet: ‘Plan to open another Holocaust museum in Budapest faces criticism — from Jews’ by Ruth Ellen Gruber.
18 December 2013. International New York Times: ‘Is fascism returning to Europe?’ by Federico Finchelstein and Fabian Bosoer.