Pen drawings from today's Budapest

Why did we choose to publish the Berzsenyi trilogy of Zoltán Ambrus? For the series of portfolios, which concerns the Jews, more precisely their modernizing layer, which is assimilating to the Hungarians, with such a corrosive mockery. Why the Past and the Future? The Past and the Future launched the Hungarian Jewish Narrative series. Namely, because we believe that the representation and vision of the short Hungarian Jewish presence is better perceived and documented in fiction than in the results of historical and sociological research and analysis. Through the figures of the Berzsenyi family, Zoltán Ambrus targeted the bourgeoisie: the Jewish aristocracy, which was mostly broken from a rural crop merchant, then gained baronhood for its services or money, and then in its second generation to the pseudo-educated, (New Hungarian and Neo-Christian) Jewish upper class, who breaks into the Hungarian feudal world - as a representative of the modern banking and industrial world - by purchasing his environment - from vej to the press. The cartridges of humor and mockery explode most aptly when he arrests the zeal of the Jewish Catholic faith, stripped of his original religion and identity, and even his relationship to his old world - which goes as far as supporting anti-Semitic movements. Today’s reader really enjoys these scenes, who is familiar with the history of church-political struggles and then laws at the end of the century, as well as the university Jewish jokes and movements that were already raging at the time.