Journey to Vaja : reconstructing the world of a Hungarian-Jewish family /
Northeastern Hungary was once full of places like the village of Vaja, where Jews had farmed for generations. Elaine Naves's ancestors had tilled Hungarian soil since the eighteenth century. They had married into similar farming families and maintained a lifestyle at once agricultural, orthodox...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; London :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1996.
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Colección: | McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history ;
25. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Author's Note
- Maps
- Family Trees
- PART ONE
- Prologue: No Wide Estates
- Going Back
- Yakab's Journey
- A Wandering Jew Strikes Root
- Finding the Exemplary Wife
- Vaja
- The Rákóczi Estate
- Twelve Pairs of Shoes
- Kálmán Came from Kajdanó
- Honeymoon in Vaja
- Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother
- The First Lieutenant
- Prophecy and Revolution
- The Piricse Partners
- To Walk Straight
- PART TWO
- The Academy Years
- First Loves
- Apprenticeship in VarsányWorking Days
- Holidays
- Lust and Love
- Marriage and Liaison
- Journey to Vaja
- The Liberation of a Magyar Jew
- Normality in the Tightening Noose
- The Finger of God
- The Greatest and Most Horrible Crime
- Epilogue: Circle of Stories
- Glossary
- A
- B
- C
- D
- G
- H
- J
- K
- M
- N
- P
- R
- S
- T
- Y
- Notes
- Bibliography