Apprentice in Budapest

Fülszöveg

In addition to being
a welcome contribution to autobio-
graphical literature, Apprentice in Buda-
pest is an important primary source for
anyone interested in the history and cul-
ture of Hungarian Jewry His detailed
description of places and events will be
of great value to researchers whose
quest for information about twentieth-
century Hungarian Jewry is often sty-
mied by the paucity of primary sources.
To prospective readers Apprentice in
Budapest offers an emotion-filled ex-
cursion into the realm of nostalgia."
-Andrew Handler
APPRENTICE IN BUDAPEST
Memories of a World That Is No More
Raphael Patai
This psychologically oriented, frank autobiog- '
raphy covers the first twenty-two years of the
life of Raphael Patai, famous anthropologist
and biblical scholar. His astounding memory
reaches back to his first year and goes on to illu-
minate the steady widening of his horizons as
his interests came to include family, society,
and the worlds of art,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In addition to being
a welcome contribution to autobio-
graphical literature, Apprentice in Buda-
pest is an important primary source for
anyone interested in the history and cul-
ture of Hungarian Jewry His detailed
description of places and events will be
of great value to researchers whose
quest for information about twentieth-
century Hungarian Jewry is often sty-
mied by the paucity of primary sources.
To prospective readers Apprentice in
Budapest offers an emotion-filled ex-
cursion into the realm of nostalgia."
-Andrew Handler
APPRENTICE IN BUDAPEST
Memories of a World That Is No More
Raphael Patai
This psychologically oriented, frank autobiog- '
raphy covers the first twenty-two years of the
life of Raphael Patai, famous anthropologist
and biblical scholar. His astounding memory
reaches back to his first year and goes on to illu-
minate the steady widening of his horizons as
his interests came to include family, society,
and the worlds of art, literature, and scholar-
ship. In a fascinating historical chapter, Patai
traces his family tree back to the 15th-century
Hungarian ancestors on his father's side, and to
his 13th-century German ancestors on his
mother's side. While telling the story of his
growing up in the house of his father, Joseph
. Patai, who was a Zionist leader and central fig-
\ ure in the cultural life of Hungarian Jewry, and
i describing the tribulations of his first literary
and poetic attempts, Patai also paints a critical,
yet affectionate, picture of Hungarian Jewry in
the years preceding 1933-a world that is no
more. Vissza