Israel’s ambassador to Hungary has cancelled a planned visit to the northern town of Eger to protest reported anti-Semitic comments directed at Jewish actor Jozsef Szekhelyi. Ambassador Ilan Mor expressed support for Szekhelyi, a veteran actor who has...
Award-winning Hungarian-Jewish writer Akos Kertesz has confirmed that he has applied for political asylum in Canada. Harassment and threats following the author’s controversial statements about Hungary's role in the Holocaust have led him to seek asylum...
Istvan Csurka, a far-right Hungarian writer and politician who was notorious for his anti-Semitism, has died. His family announced his death of an undisclosed illness at the age of 77 on Saturday. Late last year Csurka, a playwright and essayist, had...
Ceremonies in Budapest inaugurated Raoul Wallenberg Year, a series of events marking the centennial of the birth of the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi, Swedish Foreign...
