Sunday, November 17, 2013

Hungary: Officials question anti-Semitism survey, Jews say survey matches reality


Hungarian officials questioned the methodology of a survey that showed greater fear of anti-Semitism among Jews in Hungary than in other European countries. 
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But Jewish community leaders said the elevated fear reflected in the report matched what they knew about the community. 
“Members of our community already for a long time are aware of the existence and of the increase of anti-Semitism in Hungary,” Gyorgy Gador, the head of the Pava synagogue community, told the Nepszabadsag daily last week. “Many [Jews] left in recent years abroad, not only for existential-economic reason, but because of their uncomfortable political feeling here, at home,” he added.

Read more: JTA

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