Issue 1 · Budapest
- Welcome
A Diaspora Journal
- Editor’s Note
Budapest: An Introduction
“Budapest is the capital of a nation that sees itself always approaching the brink of oblivion.”
- Memoir
My Jewish Budapest
by George Szirtes
“My father was Jewish by accident, it seemed to me, the accident of his nose.”
- Essay
World People in Nation-States
by George Konrád
“It makes no sense for Jews to prove that they are basically the same as the national majority around them.”
- Fiction
Captivity
by George Spiró
“You stand there, looking repentant, even if you pleaded innocent.”
- Interview
Agnes Heller: Politics, Terror, and Comedy
by Jim O’Higgins
“Terrorism capitalizes on ‘equal opportunity,’ because modernity hasn’t delivered on its promise.”
- Fiction
City of Holes
by Péter Zilahy
“I was born in this city of holes, there were bullet holes in the hospital wall, and bullet holes in the tomb stones.”
- Poetry
by Agi Mishol
- Report
An Ordinary Pogrom
by Claude Cahn
“People who give up their culture in the competition of nations have ‘gone Gypsy.’”
- Elsewhere
The Disappearance
by Ilan Stavans
“He wanted to understand the power of silence. But in this area, he was short of talent.”
