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István Tatár
My Twentieth Century –
The Life and Thoughts of a Hungarian Jewish Intellectual
Memoirs of Contradictions –
Ponderings on History
(Kulturbrücke – Beiträge zur
Internationalen Kultur und Zusammenarbeit. Eine
Schriftenreihe der Auslandsgesellschaft Deutschland e.V.,
herausgegeben von Heinz Fennekold, Bd. 1)
1. Auflage 2008, 108 Seiten,
Format 21 x 13,8 cm
ISBN 978-3-89896-318-3, Broschur, 14,90 Euro, 26,50 sFr
Best.-Nr. 318
Without knowledge of the past, we cannot understand the
present, and without precise knowledge of the present we
cannot shape the future.
It is with this conviction that István Tatár guides the
reader through his Twentieth Century.
In his ›Memoirs of contradictions‹ he illustrates the close
relationships between world events and his own life, a life
that mirrors the incomprehensible contradictions of the past
century, including the unforeseen horrors of the years
between 1933 and 1945.
Born into an educated Jewish family in Budapest in1920,
István Tatár shows how our destiny is not only determined by
our parents and our upbringing, but also by politics and
what happens in the wider world. This he does with irony and
a keen eye for overarching connections.
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