Dr. Péter FeldmájerPresident of the Alliance ofHungarian Jewish Communities Bitter restitution In the spring of 1945, the Allied troops liberated the concentration camps and the few surviving Jews began their life anew with the help of their liberators. As soon as the fighting ended, delegations from various countries began the painful search for their citizens…

Imre Kertész: THE HOLOCAUST AS CULTURE In the course of a walk one day in 1989 in Vienna where I visited for the first time in my life, I found myself in a picturesque square in the inner city. A flight of steps led towards the Danube, and the narrow, winding cobble-stoned streets were lined…

From the Fictional Hasidic Stories Series Rohrig Geza About Truth Once somebody turned to the Rebbe of Grujavitz and asked: „Master, why isn’t everything reversed? Why isn’t temptation written with tiny Hebrew letters in huge books? And why isn’t the truth walking braless on the street? The Rebbe laughed at the pupil. „Why are you…

György Konrad Aphorism On The Durability Of Jews (excerpts) Being a Jew is a several thousand-year-old challenge. The Jews are a global people, present almost everywhere, and what has been around a long time stays around. Jews exist, and have for ages! This peculiarity is a fact, and almost everything follows from it. Is there…

András Kovács Anti-Semitism and the young élite in Hungary after 1990 It would be difficult to say whether anti-Semitism suddenly increased after the collapse of Communism, or whether previously existing anti-Semitic attitudes and ideologies simply resurfaced openly with the introduction of civil and political rights. Although the open manifestation of anti-Semitism is a significant change…