This is an extract from Modern Times: The Biography of a Hungarian-Jewish Family, published by Brandram in the UK in 2021. Stephen Pogany is a writer, political commentator and literary translator, currently based in Budapest Hungary. He has taught at the universities of Edinburgh, Hull, Exeter, City University, London and Warwick, as well as at the Central European University, Budapest. He is currently working on a book with the provisional title: Transylvania: An Alternative History of Europe.