TY - BOOK AU - Naves,Elaine Kalman TI - Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family T2 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History Series SN - 9780773566347 AV - DS135.H93 U1 - 943.90099 PY - 1996/// CY - Montreal PB - McGill-Queen's University Press KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3331146 ER -