Journey to Vaja : Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family.

Intro -- 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 Varsány -- Working 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.

Part autobiography, part family chronicle, and part immigrant saga, Journey to Vaja tells the story of the Weinbergers over the course of two centuries. From settlement in a Hungarian village in the late eighteenth century to the German occupation of Hung.

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