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Let the Survivors Check in First, Please!
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“Shalom and good morning everyone, allow me to extend a warm and of course respectful welcome to you, our honored guests, on behalf of Viva Travel, on this Down Memory Lane package tour, including a…

Contributor:

Gábor T. Szántó

Places:

Budapest, Hungary

Date:

2004

Subjects:

Holocaust, Humor, Travel, Communism, Sectarianism

Categories:

Literature, Fiction
Sample from “Besszer” Calendar: Foreigners in Budapest
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This text was produced under Ágai’s pseudonym, Mokany Berczi.

Contributor:

Adolf Ágai

Places:

Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)

Date:

1892

Subjects:

Calendar, Comics, Humor, Cities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Engraving of two people speaking in the street.
The History of Borsszem Janko (Johnny Peppercorn)
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I was lying in bed sick when, on January 5th, 1868, the first issue came out. Understandably, the party line and the competition tried to alienate from me János Jankó, the illustrator of the…

Contributor:

Adolf Ágai

Places:

Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)

Date:

1887

Subjects:

Humor, Politics, Artists, Satire, Writing

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Journalism
Print of men sitting around a table in room with central column.