“The liberation of the whole country from the rule of imperialism … ”: the Hungarian(-Jewish) ethnic vote and Israeli party politics in the early years of the Jewish state

The study examines the ideological/party preferences of Hungarian Jews who emigrated to Palestine/Israel in the early years of the Jewish state and their integration into the new world. Tibor Scher, Director of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Palestine (Hungarian State Cultural Institute and Library) even conducted a kind of poll among the Hungarian Jewry of the Yishuv, in which he examined these preferences. The Hungarian version of the right-wing radical Lehi (Lohamei Herut Yisrael) manifesto, which was forming into a party, is also included at the end of the study, which was discovered and translated by Attila Novak. This source (probably dating from the autumn of 1948 or 1950) which shows that the group, which was formed as a party in 1948, tried to recruit members from the local Hungarian Jewish community.