Howard Lupovitch

Associate Professor
PhD, Columbia University, 1996

Research Interests

Modern Jewish History, the Jews of Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, Urban History, Noble-Jewish Relations, the Magyar-Jewish Symbiosis, the roots of secular Jewish culture.

Current research projects

    The Jews of Budapest; The Life and Times of Elsie Kohut Sulzberger; Neolog Judaism: The Hungarian Balance between Tradition and Reform

Publications

Jews and Judaism in World History (Routlege Press, 2009).

Jews at the Crossroads: Tradition and Accommodation during the Golden Age of the Hungarian Nobility, 1729-1878. (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2007).

"Jews and the Zichy Estate: a Case Study in Magnate-Jewish Relations" Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook vol. 7 (2008)

"Navigating Rough Water: Alexander Kohut and the Hungarian Origins of Conservative Judaism" AJS Review XXXII no.1 (2008)

"Mór Jókai and the Hungarian Philo-Semitic Tradition" in Philosemitism in History, Adam Sutcliffe and Jonathan Karp eds., (Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press).

"Beyond the Walls: The Beginnings of Pest Jewry"  Austrian History Yearbook XXXVI, (Winter, 2005) pp. 40-64.

"The Dreyfus Affair in the Hungarian-, German-, and Russian-Jewish Press" Historical Reflections 31:2 (December/2005)pp. 393-407.

"Searching for Catholic Israel in Focsani: Solomon Schechter's Childhood in Romania" Studies in Jewish Civilization 16 (2005).

"Between Orthodox Judaism and Neology: The Origins of the Status Quo Movement" Jewish Social Studies 9:2 (Winter/2003) pp. 123-153.

"Traversing the Rupture of Trianon: Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in Hungary?" Review article, Patterns of Prejudice 37:4 (December, 2003) pp. 429-436.

 

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Current Courses

Courses Taught

  • History 4896F: Jewish Emancipation and its Discontents
  • History 4897G: History of Zionism
  • History 9714A: The Habsburg Monarchy
  • History 3811E: Jewish History and Culture, 1492 to the Present
  • History 3891E: Jews and the City
  • History 9411B: Jews of Eastern Europe