June 26th, 2012
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Six Jewish organizations and federations have called on the government to revise the national curriculum and remove four “anti-Semitic” writers from it.
The writers in question,
Jozsef Nyiro (1889-1953), Albert Wass (1908-1998), Istvan Sinka (1897-1969) and Dezso Szabo (1879-1945) spread “the contagion of anti-Semitism,” the organizations said in a statement.
“It is unacceptable that they constitute an integral part of the education of Hungarian youth,” the statement signed by Mazsihisz, the March of the Living Foundation, Mazsike, the Hungarian Zionist Alliance, the Victims of Nazism Committee and the B’nai B’rith Budapest Lodge said.
Nyiro remained loyal to the Hungarian Nazi Arrow Cross government up until the last minute,
They also protested against the recent involvement of Hungary’s Parliament in organizing Nyiro’s reburial in Transylvania.
Wass proudly called himself an anti-Semite until his death while Sinka fomented anti-Jewish sentiment with his poems; Szabo laid the intellectual foundation of the public mood that led to the enactment of anti-Jewish laws in the interwar period, they said.
The six organizations called it “bewildering” that the national curriculum discusses the works of Imre Kertesz, Hungary’s sole Nobel-laureate writer, in the chapter on literary prizes, instead of the chapter on Hungarian literature, “casting them out of Hungarian literary history”.
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Official says no revision of curriculum planned
The government has no plans to revise the recently approved new national curriculum, education state secretary
Rozsa Hoffmann said on Tuesday.
Hoffmann said the criticised writers are not in the compulsory group of authors within the curriculum. Schools can freely decide to select other writers and therefore the organizations’ concerns are “not well-founded, “she added.
http://www.politics.hu/20120626/jewi...al-curriculum/