LEADER 04284nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910782732303321 005 20230912144307.0 010 $a1-282-85425-9 010 $a9786612854255 010 $a0-7735-6634-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773566347 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713422 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000281121 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11239068 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281121 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10299976 035 $a(PQKB)11463268 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400439 035 $a(CaBNvSL)jme00326168 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331146 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10141818 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285425 035 $a(OCoLC)929121443 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/7qhfrt 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400439 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331146 035 $a(DE-B1597)657943 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773566347 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3245420 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713422 100 $a19961106d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJourney to Vaja$b[electronic resource] $ereconstructing the world of a Hungarian-Jewish family /$fElaine Kalman Naves 210 $aMontreal ;$aLondon $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc1996 215 $axii, 269 p., [16] p. of plates $cill. ;$d24 cm 225 1 $aMcGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history ;$v25 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7735-1534-8 311 $a0-7735-1511-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographies and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAuthor's Note -- $tPart One -- $tPrologue: "No Wide Estates" -- $tGoing Back -- $tYakab's Journey -- $tA Wandering Jew Strikes Root -- $tFinding the Exemplary Wife -- $tVaja -- $tThe Rákóczi Estate -- $tTwelve Pairs of Shoes -- $tKálmán Came from Kajdanó -- $tHoneymoon in Vaja -- $t"Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother" -- $tThe First Lieutenant -- $tProphecy and Revolution -- $tThe Piricse Partners -- $tTo Walk Straight -- $tPart Two -- $tThe Academy Years -- $tFirst Loves -- $tApprenticeship in Varsány -- $tWorking Days -- $tHolidays -- $tLust and Love -- $tMarriage and Liaison -- $tJourney to Vaja -- $tThe Liberation of a Magyar Jew -- $tNormality in the Tightening Noose -- $tThe Finger of God -- $t"The Greatest and Most Horrible Crime" -- $tEpilogue: Circle of Stories -- $tGlossary -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography 330 $aNortheastern Hungary was full of places like the village of Vaja, where Jews had farmed for generations. Naves's ancestors had tilled Hungarian soil since the eighteenth century. They had married into similar farming families and maintained a lifestyle at once agricultural, orthodox, and Hungariophile. The Nyirség, a sandy, slightly undulating region wedged between the Great Hungarian Plain and the foothills of the Carpathians, was the centre of their world. But all this changed irrevocably with the holocaust; Naves's generation is the first in two centuries whose roots are severed from the soil that once nurtured them. Naves's quest for her past began with her father, one of the few members of a vast extended family to survive the Nazi death camps. His stories and memories of ancestors were a well-spring from which he drew strength, and they became an obsession for Naves as she was growing up and when she had children of her own. Journey to Vaja is her attempt to record the lives of these ancestors and reclaim their lives as part of her and her children's birthright. It incorporates myths and stories with family letters and detailed archival research to provide an extraordinary look at the landscape of memory and a testament to the redemptive power of love and family. 410 0$aMcGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history ;$v25. 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$zHungary 607 $aHungary$xHistory 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 676 $a943.9/0099 700 $aNaves$b Elaine Kalman$01468920 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782732303321 996 $aJourney to Vaja$93680291 997 $aUNINA