Journey to Vaja : reconstructing the world of a Hungarian-Jewish family

Northeastern Hungary was once full of places like the village of Vaja, where Jews had farmed for generations. Elaine Naves's ancestors had tilled Hungarian soil since the eighteenth century. They had married into similar farming families and maintained a lifestyle at once agricultural, orthodox, and Hungariophile. The Nyirseg, a sandy, slightly undulating region wedged between the Great Hungarian Plain and the foothills of the Carpathians, was the centre of their world. All this changed irrevocably with the Holocaust: Naves's generation is the first in two centuries whose roots are severed from the soil that once nurtured them. Includes bibliographical references. xii, 269 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm