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Ginzei Haim ] * 18 [ article will attempt to fill, at least to some extent, the gap in the research on this subject . The Hungarian Jewry and religious Youth Movements The Hungarian Jewish community, which at the end of the 1 30 s numbered close to 500,000 people, was divided into the Neolog ( 65 . 5 percent ) , Orthodox ( 29 . 2 percent ) , and the Status Quo ( 5 . 3 percent ) communities . The emancipation of Hungarian Jews in 1867 served as a catalyst for their integration into the larger society and speeded up the process of assimilation . However, antisemitism, which increased markedly in the interwar period, demonstrated that the Jewish question in that country was still far from solved . Due to the extensive assimilation, the Zionist movement in Hungary was very small . On the eve of World War II, all the Zionist movements combined numbered no more than 5,000 members . 2 according to the Zionist census of the religious Zionist movements — “ Mizrachi” and “Bnei Akiva” — , 3 1 wer...
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