Iván T. Berend
(1930–2026) economics historian, Holocaust survivor
Iván Tibor Berend (11 December 1930 – 30 August 2026) was a Hungarian historian and teacher who served as President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1985 until 1990. He was a member of Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party's Central Committee between 1988 and 1989. From 1990, he lived in Los Angeles and taught at UCLA. Berend specialised in the economic and social history of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2015, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Early life
Iván Tibor Berend was born in Budapest, Hungary on 11 December 1930, during the Great Depression. He came from a lower-middle-class Jewish family that was not highly educated. Berend was raised in the 7th district of Budapest, a strongly Jewish neighbourhood, and lived at 36 Akácfa utca with family and a close community of neighbours.
He started school in 1937, during a period of rising nationalism caused by the re-annexation of some of Hungary's lost territories. Iván Berend was nine years old when the Second World War broke out, and his family began to be directly affected by anti-Jewish laws from June 1944 onwards. During that time, the building they lived in, along with many other houses inhabited by Jewish families, was formally designated as Jewish when a large yellow Star of David was put on the entrance door.
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