Mary Gluck is a professor of history and Judaic studies at Brown University. She is the author of Georg Lukacs and His Generation, 1900-1918 and Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris.
Request Academic Copy
Please copy the ISBN for submitting review copy form
Description
A profoundly insightful analysis."" - Times Literary Supplement ""This book does not disappoint. On the contrary, Gluck has produced a true tour de force, seamlessly wedding together the most engaging aspects of Hungarian Jewish history, cultural, and urban life."" - Hungarian Studies Review ""In this fascinating, well-documented history of short-lived Jewish Budapest, Mary Gluck presents the questions of modernity and of Jewish identity as the central dynamics of this culture. . . . Both scholarly and entertaining."" - Jewish Currents ""Remarkable historical detective work has brought this book to life. . . . Beautifully written."" - Journal of Modern History ""The Invisible Jewish Budapest has a truly bold vision that is expressed in subtle, poignant analyses of the many cultural layers of turn of the century Budapest. . . . [Gluck] has descended into the underbelly of the golden age of Hungarian Jewry, and emerged with a diamond."" - Hungarian Historical Review