http://www.esztersblog.com/2004/10/07/hungarian-nobel-prize-winners/ social commentary, gadgets, art, travel and whatever else comes to mind Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:56:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.esztersblog.com/2004/10/07/hungarian-nobel-prize-winners/comment-page-1/#comment-10216 jaimito Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:01:09 +0000 /?p=37#comment-10216 Hargittai úr, You are far too kind. Karcag is a stonethrow distance from my own village in the JászKúnság. Jews were deported in August 1944 when everybody knew that the Polish Jewry was no more, and that the same fate was being prepared for Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz. My father told me how they begged local authorities and local churches help them avoid the getto and deportation, no Hungarian helped. There are no Jews today in that region, maybe one or two who are not Jews strictu sensu but hated as such. WE have no ambivalent feelings toward our fellow Hungarians. We hate them at least as much as they hate us. Hargittai úr, You are far too kind. Karcag is a stonethrow distance from my own village in the JászKúnság. Jews were deported in August 1944 when everybody knew that the Polish Jewry was no more, and that the same fate was being prepared for Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz. My father told me how they begged local authorities and local churches help them avoid the getto and deportation, no Hungarian helped. There are no Jews today in that region, maybe one or two who are not Jews strictu sensu but hated as such. WE have no ambivalent feelings toward our fellow Hungarians. We hate them at least as much as they hate us.

]]> http://www.esztersblog.com/2004/10/07/hungarian-nobel-prize-winners/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Frederick Sweet Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:21:24 +0000 /?p=37#comment-147 I am grateful to István Hargittai for his recent historical account of our friend Avram Heshko. Most summers, my wife Marika and I spend some time with Judy and Avram at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA where Avram works with his graduate students on sea life. Marika and I have a long history with Hungary --- each of our parents and their several generations before them having been born there. Avram is an exceptionally kind and gentle man, and so I am grateful that, as Prof. Hargittai had written: "He does not follow all what is being printed about him in the Hungarian media so he cannot be upset by the attempts of editors re-writing the past which Hungary still has not been able to face with honor." Since 1977, Marika and I have worked in Hungary as American scholars. Hopefully, some day we can meet Prof. Hargittai in Budapest. Meanwhile, I look forward to reading his "OUR LIVES - ENCOUNTERS OF A SCIENTIST" I am grateful to István Hargittai for his recent historical account of our friend Avram Heshko. Most summers, my wife Marika and I spend some time with Judy and Avram at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA where Avram works with his graduate students on sea life. Marika and I have a long history with Hungary — each of our parents and their several generations before them having been born there. Avram is an exceptionally kind and gentle man, and so I am grateful that, as Prof. Hargittai had written: “He does not follow all what is being printed about him in the Hungarian media so he cannot be upset by the attempts of editors re-writing the past which Hungary still has not been able to face with honor.” Since 1977, Marika and I have worked in Hungary as American scholars. Hopefully, some day we can meet Prof. Hargittai in Budapest. Meanwhile, I look forward to reading his “OUR LIVES – ENCOUNTERS OF A SCIENTIST”

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