ABSTRACT
This chapter follows the ascent of journalist Lajos Marschalkó from the small-town lower-middle class and his career as a columnist at a major national daily in Budapest. While Erdélyi started out from the regime's agrarian opposition and joined its fascist opposition, Marschalkó's career evolved within the pro-fascist faction of the regime. This chapter shows how the fascist push from within the authoritarian regime created an evolving system of racial privileges, male-homosocial networks, and professional opportunities in journalism that enabled Marschalkó's mobility. More broadly, it transformed journalism and opened up ways to reshape public perception and memory. This chapter expands on how Marschalkó and fellow journalists rediscovered the early antisemites of the 1880s as predecessors of a racial program. This chapter zooms in on some emblematic scenes of memory-making—a public commemoration, a philological discovery, and personal recollections—to understand how Eszter's memory crystallized as a new cornerstone of national history for the pro-fascist right.
