The Hungarian Jewish Source Book. A Centropa Reader-Volume 6

The Hungarian Jewish Source Book is the sixth in a series of Centropa readers on 20th century Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe.

In this volume, ten Hungarian Jews - some secular, others religious, some from small towns, others from the great cities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - tell their family stories, from the small comedies of everyday life to the great tragedies that befell them Here is the twentieth century described, not as historical events, but what those events did to ten people whose lives were all but destroyed during the turbulent twentieth century.

This Source Book also provides essays on Hungarian Jewish history, as well as a collection of important names and dates to know in Hungarian history and reasons to know them.