Some Comments on “Nine Suitcases” by Bela Zsolt
This book is a very vivid and candid memoir of the war years by a secular Hungarian Jew. Zsolt wrote for the liberal press before the war and was strongly opposed to fascism in all its forms. He paid for this and for his Jewish heritage during the anti-Semitic...Something to Read, Something to Think About, Whether You’re Hungarian or Not
For the last five years I have been doing historical research, centering on Hungary during World War II and into the 1950’s, for some novels I’ve been writing. One of my novels is set in Budapest in 1944-45 at the terrible culmination of the war there. The other...Remembering a Sister
It’s been quite a while since I wrote on my blog. My last entry marked the 34th anniversary of my marriage to Rory, and two entries before that I wrote about the arrival of my first grandchild. Today I am marking a sadder life passage. On January 30, 2011 my...34 Years . . .
Last month Rory and I celebrated our 34th anniversary, which means that next year we will have been married for 35 years. And that means that by anyone’s standards we are experienced at this thing called marriage. Fairly often people comment to us that we’ve done a...
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I am a writer who loves good music and good stories. It’s been my privilege to combine these loves by writing fiction that honors the creation of beauty, even in the bleakest of circumstances, through the creation of music. Writing has also led me to a deep interest in the recent history of central and eastern Europe.
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