Eternally Waiting

György Konrád

1991

Can Jews remain in East-Central Europe? That is the question.

Hungary has between eighty and a hundred thousand Jews, Romania about twenty thousand, the rest of the countries a few thousand each. Jews have had several waves of opportunity to emigrate from their Central European homelands, and many have taken advantage of them; indeed, in some…

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Creator Bio

György Konrád

1933–2019

Hungarian-born György Konrád was a novelist and essayist. After graduating with a degree in literature from the Eötvös Loránd University, he was an editor for the magazine Életképek. Konrád was a dissident under the communist regime and participated in the Hungarian uprising of 1956. In 1973, he was arrested and lost his job. In 1990 he was elected president of the International PEN Club, and in 1997 became director of the Art Academy in Berlin. He earned the Herder Prize, the Charlemagne Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award.

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