Seek the "right path": the Jews of Slovakia in remapped post-World War I East Central Europe -- From Hungary to Czechoslovakia: Jewish transition to the consolidating Czechoslovak state -- Nationality is an internal conviction: Jewish nationality and Czechoslovak state building -- Contested loyalty: proving Slovak Jewish loyalty to Czechoslovakia -- Between the nationalities: statist Slovak Jews, separatist Slovaks, and the Revisionist threat -- Mapping Jewish loyalties
Summary
In the aftermath of World War I, the largely Hungarian-speaking Jews in Slovakia faced the challenge of reorienting their political loyalties from defeated Hungary to newly established Czechoslovakia. Rebekah Klein-Pejšová examines the challenges Slovak Jews faced as government officials, demographers, and police investigators continuously tested their loyalty. Focusing on ""Jewish nationality"" as a category of national identity, Klein-Pejšová shows how Jews recast themselves as loyal citizens of Czechoslovakia. Mapping Jewish Loyalties in Interwar Slovakia traces how the interwar state saw a
