The New Past and Future

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We are offering emotionally neutral texts for the readers of the 2/2006 summer edition. The articles on the 60th anniversary of the Holocaust as well as the writings on the so-called "nationality" tragic-comedy discouraged all those readers who sought calm in Jewish culture and identity. (This is an observation on the part of our readers and in the future we will try to do our best to be more self-critical.)
Pure literature is represented by an excerpt of A. B. Joshua¹s novel Molcho (The Fifth Season), a short story by Paul Engle and the poems by Emil Makai, András Mezei and István Turczy. We present poems by Zoltán Somlyó and György Somlyó (19202006) on the sad occasion of the death of the latter. The study of Ernô Csekô about the Jewish characters of one of the most important Hungarian novels by Mihály Babits¹s Dead men is about the connection between the original characters and the poet, is based on original documents. The film-essay by Anette Hilbert is about the two Oscar nominees: Munich by Spielberg and Paradise Now by Abu Assad. Ágnes Heller,
who received the "Nobel prize of philosophers", the Sonningprisen in Copenhagen this April, discusses in her essay The Shame of Trauma The Trauma of Shame the problem of the Holocaust as well as the newest cases shocking Hungarian society through the definition of these two notions in which we are to learn that the most enigmatic characters of our cultural life have been agents at a certain time. The sociography of Zsuzsa Alpár is devoted to analysing how it feels to be old and Jewish i.e. to be a
Holocaust survivor in Hungary today. György Fehéri struggles about thechoices his father made after 1945.

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Emil Makai: I believe

György Somlyó: Dragon Killer

János Kőbányai: On the death of György Somlyó (1920-2006)

Zoltán Somlyó: The Strings Go Mute

András Mezei: poems

Ágnes Heller: The Shame of Trauma, the Trauma of Shame

Anette Hilbert: Concerned

Ernő Csekő: My Honoured Compatriot. The Friendship of Lajos Leopold Jr. and Mihály Babits

Walter Pietsch: Situations Inside and Outside the Ghettos of the XIX. Century Hungarian Kingdom

Erzsébet Mislovics: Hungarian Orthodoxy at the Turn of the Century (1891-1906) Based on Zsidó Hiradó, an Orthodox Weekly

György Fehéri: My Father had Left Me a Lot to Do...

Zsuzsa Alpár: Anamnesis

István Turczi: poems

Ágnes Gergely: An Introduction to Paul Engle¹s Short Story/ Paul Engle: Ghosts

A. B. Jehosua: The Fifth Season

Eszter Dallos: On two Israeli bibliography

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