- Summary
- "The moment she discovered the existence of Richard, a long-lost relative, at Israel's Holocaust Museum, Margaret begins an unexpected journey of revelations and connectivity as she tirelessly researches the history of her forgotten Hungarian Jewish ancestors, the Engel de Jánosis. Propelled by a Fulbright cultural exchange that sends her to teach at a Hungarian University, Margaret, her husband and teenage son travel to Pécs, a small town in an increasingly xenophobic and anti-Semitic Hungary. Insightful and heart-wrenching, 'Where the Angels Lived' beautifully documents the relentless determination of a woman picking up the pieces of her family's fragmented history throughout the Hungarian Holocaust. Straddling memoir and reportage, past and present, this story reminds us all that we can escape a country, but we can never escape history"--Page [4] of cover.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- McMullan, Margaret, author.
- Published
- Houston, TX : Calypso Editions, 2019
©2019
- Locale
- Hungary
Pécs (Hungary)
- Edition
- First edition
- Contents
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Contents: Part I: Israel 2008 and Indiana 2009: Israel 2008, Museum of Remembrance ; Indiana 2009, Parachute jump
Part II: Hungary 2010: August, Broken ; They will grow suspicious ; September, It starts with the father ; Punch line ; Rat fortress ; Roots run deep ; He who rests, rusts ; Both clocks ticking ; Crossed out ; October, What does this mean, Good? Nice? ; A bridge of tolerance ; Like sunburned figures ; Amour in the broken castle
Part III: Austria-Hungary 1845-1945: Transactions ; Occupying forces ; Where they burn books ; Where mountains fall into the sea ; Kristallnacht ; The proud beggar
Part IV: Hungary 2010: November, Bring the dead back to life ; Feeling the cold badly ; Survivors ; Living family ; Broken clouds and a hatred for hate ; Kaddish for Engel, 64240; December, Family ; Checkpoint
Part V: Paris and Pécs 2013, Paris, French kisses ; Pécs, Untying the knot
Acknowledgments
About the author
Bibliography.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Part I: Israel 2008 and Indiana 2009: Israel 2008, Museum of Remembrance ; Indiana 2009, Parachute jump -- Part II: Hungary 2010: August, Broken ; They will grow suspicious ; September, It starts with the father ; Punch line ; Rat fortress ; Roots run deep ; He who rests, rusts ; Both clocks ticking ; Crossed out ; October, What does this mean, Good? Nice? ; A bridge of tolerance ; Like sunburned figures ; Amour in the broken castle -- Part III: Austria-Hungary 1845-1945: Transactions ; Occupying forces ; Where they burn books ; Where mountains fall into the sea ; Kristallnacht ; The proud beggar -- Part IV: Hungary 2010: November, Bring the dead back to life ; Feeling the cold badly ; Survivors ; Living family ; Broken clouds and a hatred for hate ; Kaddish for Engel, 64240; December, Family ; Checkpoint -- Part V: Paris and Pécs 2013, Paris, French kisses ; Pécs, Untying the knot -- Acknowledgments -- About the author -- Bibliography.
