Journey to Vaja

by Elaine Kalman Naves

Book Overview

Northeastern Hungary was full of places like the village of Vaja, where Jews had farmed for generations. 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 Nyirs g, a sandy, slightly undulating region wedged between the Great Hungarian Plain and the foothills of the Carpathians, was the centre of their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773515348
• ISBN13: 9780773515345
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"