The exhibition, entitled Tell Your Son... is a rich record of all facets of life among Jewish communities in Budapest and Miskolc. It is presented by the Hungarian Association of Jewish Communities, the Hungarian Jewish Museum and the Hungarian Institute in Poland, in addition to the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute. The curator is deputy director of the Hungarian Institute Krisztina Jerger and the exhibition director is Rita Rusznák from the Hungarian Jewish Museum.
The 50 photographs are part of a larger portfolio, published in book form in 1984 with text by Rabbi Sándor Scheiber, a linguist and literary historian. The entire portfolio was exhibited in Budapest in 1983. From there it travelled to Paris, Milan, New York, Berlin, Stuttgart and Krakow.
Hungary's Jewish communities were the only place in Hungary where genuine community existed in the 1970s, according to Féner. The only other "communities" were socialist work cooperatives.
The exhibition will be open for one month.
Féner spoke to a packed lecture hall at a talk on the history of Hungarian photography for the University of Warsaw's Hungarian Department on Tuesday.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: MTI
