Since 2009, the Hungarian Academy of Arts has been excavating Machaerus, the Herodian royal castle overlooking the Dead Sea in the Kingdom of Jordan, where Princess Salome danced and Saint John the Baptist was imprisoned and killed. The latter happening is not based purely on the holy tradition of Christian
Prologue Decades of delay A stranger can ask a question that changes the way you see your life. “Why did you wait for six decades to write this memoir?” I wanted to forget the war. “Why don’t you mention until page 74 that your father was Jewish?” Why? Maybe because
MELINDA BÁNYÁSZ (PhD) – professor of English and Hungarian – was born in 1977 in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). She completed her studies in Hungarian Language and Literature, and English Language and Literature, at Babeș-Bolyai University, in her native city. She defended her doctoral thesis in 2013 at the same university,
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