Viktória Bányai

Viktória Bányai
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Research Interests

Jewish history and culture in the modern times in Hungary; history of Jewish education, Jewish scout organization

Hebrew language and literature in Hungary; Hebrew sources relating to the history of the Hungarian Jewry, Jewish cemeteries in Hungary

Jewish children in the immediate postwar period Hungary, the commemoration of the Holocaust on early memorials

Selected Publications

Frojimovics, Kinga - Komoróczy, Géza - Pusztai, Viktória - Strbik, Andrea, Jewish Budapest. Monuments, Rites, History (Budapest: CEU Press, 1999) ISBN: 963-9116-38-6

Bányai Viktória, Zsidó oktatásügy Magyarországon, 1780-1850. [Doktori Mestermunkák / Hungaria Judaica, 17] (Budapest: Gondolat, 2005) 287 oldal. ISBN: 963-9567-41-8

Bányai Viktória – Fedinec Csilla – Komoróczy Szonja Ráhel, szerk., Zsidók Kárpátalján: történelem és örökség. A dualizmus korától napjainkig [Hungaria Judaica, 30] (Budapest: Aposztróf Kiadó, 2013) 456 old. ISBN: 978-615-5056-37-6

Bányai, Viktória, "Children’s Institutions and Education, 1945–1956," In: Sharon Kangisser Cohen, ed., "My Homesickness Drove me Home...": Jewish Life in Postwar Hungary (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research, 2018), pp. 109–168. ISBN: 978-965-308-581-7

Bányai Viktória, “The Impact of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Aid Strategy on the Lives of Jewish Families in Hungary, 1945–49” In: Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath. ed. by Eliyana R. Adler – Kateřina Čapková (Rutgers University Press, 2020) ISBN: 978-1-9788-1950-4 (paperback) / ISBN 978-1-9788-1952-8 (epub) pp. 115–127.

Bányai Viktória – Komoróczy Szonja Ráhel: „Synagogue Objects Related to Charity on Shabbat: Shnoder-signs and Shnoder-books in the Hungarian Lands” Arts, 2020, 9: 63 (23 oldal) e-ISSN: 2076-0752 Special Issue Synagogue Art and Architecture, https://doi.org/10.3390/arts9020063

Bányai Viktória – Horváth Rita, „They Drew What Was in Them: The Past, the Present” Testimonial Drawings as Schoolwork in the Immediate Aftermath of the Holocaust. S:I.M.ON. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation, Vol. 10 (2023) No. 2, pp.50–72. DOI: 10.23777/sn.0223/art_vbrh01

 

Research Projects

Child survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary: orphanages, schools, memory

Parchments of Memory - the Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr in Paris 1956

Jewish Identities in Hungary from the End of the Eighteenth Century until 1918