one of the few things I argue with my husband about is the fact that he doesn’t record his family history, especially the stories of his grandfather, Arpad Gut.  Many of the buildings and bridges and water towers he built in Israel and Hungary are well known, but nothing has ever been written about the Kazinczy Street Synagogue in Budapest.    Arpad built this synagogue in 1913 – before the war – and it was one of the last things he built in the city before he was sent to the Front as an engineer, wound up in a Prisoner of War camp in Kajkstan and walked home after the war.  Once home in Budapest he was uninvited (as a Jew) to the opening of a building he built just before the war, and decided to move to Israel.  The synagogue, to my mind, has great symbolic value to the history of the Jews in Europe in the story I want Ezi to write.

of course he doesn’t read my blog, so he won’t be influenced by my plea…