Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary: An AnthologySusan Rubin Suleiman, _va Forg¾cs Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungaryfeatures works by twenty-four of Hungary?s best writers who have written about what it means to be Jewish in post-Holocaust Eastern Europe. This volume includes work by Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertäsz and other internationally known writers such as Gy”rgy Konr¾d and Päter N¾das, but most of the authors appear here in English for the first time. This anthology features poetry, long and short stories, and excerpts from memoirs and novels by postwar writers. Some of these authors were well known in Hungary before World War II, some were children or adolescents during the war and began publishing in the 1970s, some were born to survivors in the years immediately following the war and grew up during the decades of Communist rule, while others started publishing chiefly after the fall of Communism in 1989. ø Unique among Eastern European countries, Hungary still has a large and visible Jewish population, many of them writers and intellectuals living in Budapest. This anthology introduces English-speaking readers to outstanding works of literature that show the wide range of responses to Jewish identity in contemporary Hungary. The editors? introduction provides a historical and critical context for these works and discusses the important role of Jews in Hungarian culture from the late nineteenth century to the present. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | ix |
Ernő Szép 3 Excerpt from The Smell of Humans | xli |
István Vas Poems | 55 |
György Somlyó 65 Excerpt from Rámpa The ramp | 99 |
Lets Learn Foreign Languages | 105 |
Stefánia Mándy Poems | 147 |
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