The Circumcision

György Dalos

1990

All the Jewish children’s homes and live-in kindergartens that Robi Singer had been attending since the age of four had something in common. Besides a birth certificate and vaccination papers, they all required a document to prove that on the eighth day after his birth, Robi Singer had been duly circumcised. On these occasions, Robi’s grandmother…

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Creator Bio

György Dalos

b. 1943

Born in Budapest, György Dalos is a Hungarian writer who has published several novels, a volume of poetry, and essays. When he was convicted in 1968 for “subversive activities,” a publication ban was imposed against him. He has lived in Berlin since 1995, where he directed the Hungarian Cultural Institute from 1995 to 1999. In 2010, he received the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding.

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