On Saturday afternoon, March 8th, we had a Hungarian language program at the Museum. It was well-attended and well-received! Our speaker, Ildikó Antal-Ferencz, is a freelance journalist who spent almost 3 years in the U.S. Her husband’s job landed the family in New Jersey, and she spent a significant portion of those years interviewing Hungarians living in the diaspora. Their stories encompass three volumes in Hungarian, and 2 volumes in English, containing roughly 106 interviews with Hungarian-Americans residing anywhere from east coast, west coast and many states in between. Many of us sitting in the seats thought we knew how other members of the diaspora lived their magyar identity, but listening to Ildikó, you realized that our magyar communities have active members of different ages and interests. We had some out of town attendees, who were very complimentary of our Museum and its collection, library. Questions and answers were followed by refreshments and a book signing by Ildikó.
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