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Dark-faced foreigners have flooded the city. They go about rushing through the boulevards, but in the suburbs they already stop to congregate, talk in a strong and loud voice, heavily gesticulating. I…
My travel bag was lost somewhere between Szerencs and Nyíregyháza. It contained: a tallis, two pairs of tefillin, together with a Yeshuas Yisroel prayer book. There were also two High…
This is what he must have looked like,
Christ in the autumn, like me with my
twenty-two summers: still beardless,
blond, and the girls couldn’t help it,
dreamed of him night after night!
Translated…
I have always backed off from the word.
In the Thirties Europe meant French. But was it only then? Not in earlier centuries? A bloody lesson learned that Europe was Balmazújváros as well as Notre…
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…
And after all the argumentation and consideration
The Jew will arise and speak to us:
“In our blessed country all voices of the Torah are at the doorway
And all lessons will captivate the hearts of…
This text was produced under Ágai’s pseudonym, Mokany Berczi.
Red Hammer Man (which debuted in 1912) was used on posters during Hungary’s 1919 revolution and was reproduced over the years as a key figure of socialist propaganda. The heroic figure wielding a…
The Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest is considered an art-nouveau masterpiece. When it was built, it was ground-breaking not only for Hungarian architecture but also for museum architecture in…
Dedicated to Dr. Zunz, the grandmaster of Jewish scholarship, on his 90th birthday.