The New Past and Future

Short summary of articles
The first issue of 2006 continues, unfortunately, to deal with the
ongoing project to shut people into "nationality" ghettos. Under the title
"Excluded", János Kőbányai argues In a series of exchanges against the
proposed degradation of Hungarian Jews into the status of "nationality".
These writings were never published by the Hungarian press, but were
condemned to be disseminated as samizdat. The e-mail correspondence next to
the articles (with the editors of Népszabadság, Élet és Irodalom and
Magyar Narancs) cast light on the political and intellectual environment in which
Hungarian Jewry is fighting for survival, or at least for the honor of its
ancestors - in vain, if it were up to the corresponding partners. The
article written 100 years ago by Zoltán Thury (published in Egyenlőség)
and
also the study of Andor Ladányi illuminates the historical roots of the
question of nationality. Zoltán Lengyel exposes the pitiful presence of
today's nationality organizers, which makes the enormous publicity which
they have garnered in the media all the more pathetic.
In her third essay on Nobel-prize winner Imre Kertész, Ágnes Heller
analyzes
Imre Kertész's new novel.
The present issue deals in detail with a classic modern Hebrew author,
Avigdor Hameiri (Feuerstein), who not only has Hungarian roots, but played
an important role in both Hungarian and Jewish Hungarian (Zionist)
intellectual life before the World War I. The essay by Alon Rachamimov (a
history professor at Tel Aviv University whose first, but by no means not the last work we publish hereby) introduces us to the complicated life of
Hameiri and his double rooted identity. It is the first salvo in a
campaign intended to revive Avigdor Hameiri in Hungary; his autobiography Singing
Death-fire will be published in the near future. An excerpt published in
this issue concerns Endre Ady - a richly written, profound document.
It is the first time we publish the writing of Berel Lang, a well-known
scholar who has long pondered the philosophical problems raised by the
Holocaust. His essay examines the question why Jews did not think of
revenge on a large scale after the Holocaust. On the same topic is the reportage
of Júlia Vajda with a survivor in Budapest who did consider just this. György
Fehéri gives an account of two face-to-face Holocaust exhibitions in
Berlin and Imre Vizler treats the everyday reception of Hungarian Holocaust.
Péter Szegedi sociologist and historian of sports writes about the history
of a Zionist soccer team (Maccabi Brno). The art collector, Miklós Éber, enlightens us on to the philosophy of Lajos Vajda. This issue is colored by the poems of Avigdor Hameiri written in Hungarian or translated from the Hebrew by himself and published in the Zionist periodical Zsidó Szemle in 1912 and 1913.

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Content

Avigdor Hameiri: Our Dewy Prayer

Ágnes Heller: Poetry and Reality – in K-minor. Imre Kertész: K. folder

Berel Lang: Holocaust-Memory and -Revenge: The Presence of the Past

Júlia Vajda: „Do not Kill” – An Unspeakable Story of Survival

György Fehéri: Remembrance Rearranged – Two Exhibitions in Berlin

Imre Vizler: Fragments of Remembering the Holocaust

Alon Rachamimov: Collective Self-definition and Austrian-Hungarian Jewry. Avigdor Hameriri (1914-1918)

Avigdor Hameiri: mbnzhurbnf

Avigdor Hameiri: Poems

Péter Szegedi: From Zionism to the Economy of Football. Maccabi Brno after the First World War

Miklós Éber: The Art Poetic of Lajos Vajda

Zoltán Thury: The Action of the Casino of Lipótváros

Andor Ladányi: To the Question of Declaration to Minority: Historical Preliminaries

Zoltán Lengyel: Parliament Café

János Kőbányai: Excluded. Jewish Nationality Business for the Second Time

Eszter Dallos: A Drop in the Ocean

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