Are you Jewish?

Fragmentary images and incomprehensible but forever remembered words, smells burned into the mucous membrane, the taste of mother's milk or yeast, the first blows and touches - Are You a Jew? traces the earliest memories of its adult narrator in order to understand the feeling that accompanies him throughout his life: foreignness. Gábor Németh's language accurately evokes the disturbing events of childhood and does not lie about their cruelty. Who am I, what do others think of me, and where do I belong? - these are the very first and most elementary questions that a person who is just putting down roots in the world faces, only to never receive reassuring answers to them. The world slowly becomes his own, and yet he remains definitively homeless. Gábor Németh's oeuvre series begins with the novel Are You a Jew?, published in 2004. The volumes of Collected Writings include both previously published texts, texts not previously published in a book, and new texts, which are supplemented by the author's commentaries and placed in a new light - in the case of Are You a Jew?, in a particularly poignant way due to the aging gaze.