Patriots without a Homeland

Patriots without a Homeland  dissects an important underexplored theme in Hungarian Jewry: Modern Orthodoxy.  This study clearly demonstrates that beginning from the late nineteenth century, a strong modernizing trend developed within Orthodoxy based on the adoption of Hungarian national identity alongside the preservation of tradition. Modern Orthodoxy was receptive to the Hungarian language, culture, and religion. However, the attempt to integrate failed. The book traces the journey