Love and Survival in Budapest: The Memoir of Artur Renyi (Karnac Library Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (936 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1782204164 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Sensitively introduced by Ilonka Venier Alexander, stylishly translated by members of Renyi’s family, and superbly contextualised by Professor Judit Mészarós, Love and Survival in Budapest: The Memoir of Artur Renyi has the capacity to touch our hearts and to break our hearts in equal measure." (Professor Brett Kahr, Consultant Psychotherapist at The Balint Consultancy in London, Trustee of the Freud Museum, and Senior Fellow at Tavistock Relationships, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology)"This finely observed and moving book documents not only a crucial period in European history but is also a memoir of loveand struggle in impossible times. Global politics today make its publication all the more topical, and it should encourage us no
For years, her area of specialization was adults with a severe and persistent mental illness. In recent years she has published a book of interviews about her father, the mathematician Alfred Rényi. Later in her career, she helped to write the mental health standards for children and adolescents in Nov
It covers the years 1921 through to 1948. This book was written by Artur Renyi in the late 1940s as a memoir and gift to his only child, Dr Alfred Renyi, noted Hungarian mathematician and the father of probability theory. The memoir is written in the form of a diary and chronicles the life of Artur, a linguist and engineer, and his wife, Borbala Alexander, a photographer who just happens to be the younger sister of the eminent psychoanalyst Franz Alexander, the founder of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. This work was translated by the author’s granddaughter and great granddaughter and edited by Dr Alexander’s granddaughter.This unique work documents the fate of Hungarian Jews in Budapest long before, during, and after the Nazi regime. He details what happened when 250,000 Jews were forced to leave their homes in Budapest. Artur Renyi writes compellingly and grippingly about fascism in Hungary and the persecutory laws against Jews, life in pre-World War II Budapest, and the air strikes on Budapest. It is most of all an intimate tale of a family written after World War II, when things changed dramatically in Eastern