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Benevolus, Dr. (pseud): A Dohány-utcai bombamerénylet tettesei [The perpetrators of the Dohány Street bombing] (Budapest, 1922. "Akarat" Printing.) 20 p. First edition. Publisher's paper cover. Banned! The work appears on the list of banned books published by the Hungarian Provisional National Government in 1945. At a meeting of the Erzsébetvárosi Demokrata Kör (Erzsébetváros Democratic Circle) in Budapest on April 2, 1922, a bomb exploded, killing eight people and injuring twenty-three. Given that, in the extreme political situation of the time, there were repeated attacks on Jews and individuals and institutions perceived as pro-Entente, and that behind all this loomed the "Ébredö Magyarok Egyesülete" (abbreviated ÉME) [Association of Awakening Hungarians] one of the largest and most politically influential far-right social organizations of the era, and more specifically the figures of Iván Héjjas and Pál Prónay, The Erzsébetváros bombing case was not brought to court alone, but was ultimately discussed in the indictment in a triple grouping with other anti-Semitic and anti-Entente crimes. Part of the aftermath of the bomb attack was a propaganda publication by ÉME in the form of a small book, published under the pseudonym Dr. Benevolus (Goodwill) by an unknown author, entitled The Perpetrators of the Dohány Street Bomb Attack. The author of the publication has not been clearly identified, but we can only guess that it was written by László Budaváry, Ferenc Ulain, Mihály Kmoskó, or another enthusiastic contemporary leader and propagandist of the far-right mass organization. The seriously disrespectful and provocative pamphlet, for which ÉME received a distribution license for only three months, claims nothing less than that radical Jews killed or had their fellow believers killed. The scandalous pamphlet caused outrage among many and disillusioned many former sympathizers of the ÉME. ( O,O ) /)__) , ,