ABSTRACT
In the years immediately after 1990 it seemed that antisemitism might rapidly gain ground in Hungarian society as the country faced up to the economic and social challenges of the transition. The 1995 survey was the first comprehensive sociological survey of antisemitism in Hungary. The American Jewish Committee (AJC) study indicates that about ten–seventeen per cent of the Hungarian population is inclined to agree with expressly antisemitic statements. According to the University of Vienna's survey, antisemitism is strongest among Poles and Austrians and weaker among Czechs and Hungarians. However, the survey also indicates that the attitudes of the Hungarian population on this issue are rather polarised. In March 1995 the authors held personal interviews, each lasting about sixty minutes, with 1,500 individuals. The primary aim of the study was to provide a more precise impression of the extent and strength of antisemitism in Hungary in the 1990s.
