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Ildikó Eperjesi, in her editorial claims: the year 2007 did not have a brilliant start, because the worst aims of Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria will probably be accompanied by the new American policy, proposed in the Baker-Hamilton report: appeasing Iran and Syria, pressuring Israel in order to solve the Iraqi problem.

Ágnes Heller draws the outlines of the history of leftist anti-Semitism, and Attila Novák reports on the Holocaust revisionist conference in Tehran.

Péter Szegő deals with the increasing radicalism among young Hungarians: ”At the time of the change of system it looked like young people represented social progress and democratic values. At the mass demonstrations of  the 27th of June 1988 or on  the 15th of March 1989  there was a significant over-representation of young people.” Over the past fifteen years however, great changes took place: support of the national radicalism has considerably increased among the younger generation – as the pseudo revolution of the last autumn clearly demonstrated.

The Jewish conservative movement now allows marriage to its homosexual members, although some difference is maintained between these wedlocks and heterosexual marriages, yet it is a sign of revolutionary changes. „ The gay issue- a fatal rupture?” is the title of an article by Andrea Sturovics who looks at the historical-halachic background of the question, while János Gadó examines contemporary debates concerning the problem.

János Flamm survived the year of 1944 in Budapest, as a small child, protected by a Schutzpass, which was issued by Raoul Wallenberg. He was over fifty when he encountered the photocopies of his Schutzpass on different exhibitions. “How could they get my Schutzpass?” – this is the puzzle he tries to resolve.His writing is illustrated with the drawings and paintings by his brother Ferenc Flamm, who has lived in Sweden over the past fifty years.

Miklós Hernádi writer, sociologist, who over a decade ago” wrote himself off” as a Hungarian author with one of his works, in  an interview to Szombat provocatively claims that to get acknowledged in Hungary a Jewish author needs to be twice as good as a non-Jewish writer. 

We publish extracts form Attila Ménes’s novel, revealing the ambivalent secrets of „mixed” relationships.
Dybbuk visited the Goldberger café – and liked it.