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Hungarian Students Want to Save Hungarian Higher Education

Last week Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government announced new cuts in higher education. From the next academic year the government plans to fully finance only 10,480 university students, two-thirds fewer than this year (which is already significantly fewer than before). They will partly finance the tuition of 46,000 more, these 46 000 students will be practically forced to either take student loan and become indebted, or leave Hungary for those EU countries which provide free higher education. An additional problem is that the government made this decision without consulting professionals involved in higher education or student unions, and the decision was made public only in December, one and a half month before the application deadlines. Consequently, future applicants could not know whether there would be state-financed places at the faculties to which they might have prepared themselves for years.

This was the very last drop after last year’s radical cuts. Hungarian students now are reacting with passionate demonstrations, in high schools, university buildings and in the streets as well, despite the freezing cold. The students, staging the second spontaneous protest march through the streets of Budapest, are demanding that the government give up its plans and start a public dialogue about the reform of higher education, involving student organizations and universities.

Demonstrations are not taking place only in the capital. Students of Pécs, Szeged, Miskolc and Nyíregyháza also organize protesting activities. Since students and prospective students usually have parents and grandparents, older members of the society started to realize what is going on in our country. We will see next year how many thousands of Hungarians emigrate because of not having opportunity to study in their homeland. Hungary has a long tradition to give its intelligentsia to the world by making their lives impossible here. Nevertheless, the protestations will continue next week, now there is still some hope that the political elite will understand the simple message of the students: “Do not send us away!”

Agnes Kelemen

Na, holnapra viszont sikerült nagyon finom ebédet főznöm. Paradicsomos-zöldborsós csirkefalatok, mértékletes fűszerezéssel, viszont 3 különböző fajta hagymával. Viszont tényleg kétségbeejtően gazdaságtalan 1 v 2 adagot főzni. Nyilván béna vagyok és nem sikerül a legolcsóbb boltokat kiszúrnom, de annyira nem érdekel az ügy, hogy messzebbre menjek vagy összehasonlító árelemzést végezzek. És ha az időt is beleszámítom, ami a legdrágább, akkor végképp rossz befektetés ez a magamnak főzősdi. De most azért büszke vagyok magamra. :)

Ma láttam élőben Vincze Kata Zsófiát, sőt ültem is mellette a bölcsészkari vallástudomány konferencián. LOL! Remélem egyszer majd én is okot szolgáltatok rá, hogy valaki megemlítse a blogján vagy a naplójában, hogy találkozott velem. :)

Játszani a felnőttet

Ma reggel és délelőtt takarítottam is, vásároltam is, főztem is és sütöttem is. Egy csomó olvasmányt is sikerült kijegyzetelni. Így is azt kell megállapítanom, hogy rettentő időigényes ez a háziasszonyosdi. :) Az egzotikus ebéd (ananászos-pirított rizs) nem jött össze, mivel 1. a boltban csak olyan fajta ananászkonzervet találtam, amit konzervnyitó nélkül nem lehet kinyitni. 2. Az őszibarack befőttet, amit ahelyett vettem, szintén nem sikerült kinyitnom. Így végül egy szójaszósszal leöntött rizi-bizi lett az egészből (sajtkockákkal), ami megalapozta leendő gyomorfekélyemet, mert mint utólag megéreztem, a gyomrom nem vágyott ennyi szókaszószra és cayenne-i borsra így egyszerre.

Múlna már el

Ma szegényebb lettem egy bölcsességfoggal, amit az ínyemből operáltak ki, mielőtt még kinőne teljes terjedelmében és összenyomná az összes többi fogam. Még soha-soha nem fájt ennyire semmi. Persze emlékeztetem magam rá, hogy emberek ennél sokkal rosszabb dolgokat szoktak elszenvedni. De ettől még szenvedek.

Minna Rozen: Five Hundred Years of „Daughter Trouble”: Jewish Families and Their Daughters in the Ottoman Era

·         „daughter trouble” usual formula in letters in the 16th century

·         in the Ottoman world a man’s honour was measured by the behaviour of the women of his family

·         child marriage considered to be protective for the morality, because in this way at reaching sexual maturity, people had already sexual partner

·         multi-generation, extended households

·         sandix=dowry boksz

·         spinterhood considered as danger for the society, for the community’s survival

·         gelin kemeri (engagement belt)-> for Christian, Muslim and for Jewish girls alike: marked that she belonged only to one man from that time

·         14 suicides in Istanbul till the 17th century, all of them young females. Minna Rozen found it out from research of tombstones

·         Kalamaria: a district of Salonikabuilt up by the Jewish community

·         Jews of Turkey were involved in the I. World War from the beginning

·         1880s Jewish refugees from Russian Empire-> very poor-> prostitution

·         Balkan wars + I. World War changed everything, the Empire and the patriarchal (Jewish) family collapsed alike

·         Salonika –tobacco industry: daughters of empoverished families became workers in tobacco factories: many of them at the age of 12 or 13!, in order to collect money for marriage-> 1920s trade unions

·         -> women became more independent-> dancing hall, trade union-> getting know men not chosen by the parents…

·         the situation was worse in Istanbul: less available job for women, they had to go to serve well-to-do families

·         in Istanbul only half of the Jewish community was Sephardic, in Salonika almost all of it

·         the „Buda” congregation in Istanbul existed from the mid-16th century

·         multiple married men very rare even amongst Sephardim

·         Jewish women used to turn to Shariya courts with their complainst about husbands! and the Shariya court could force husbands to behave better (but could not arrange divorce of Jewish marriages)

·         Jewish women are not in inheritance line, but in case of becoming widows they get back the dowry

·         intermarriage to muslims could happen only either in the highest or in the lowest social layers and from the 19th century, because middle class girls did not ever meet non:Jews and did not speak a single word in Turkish

Jewish Studies public lecture at CEU, 2012.09.27.

Hurrá, fel vagyok tüntetve mint a CEU hallgatója :)

http://nationalism.ceu.hu/node/23926

http://web.ceu.hu/jewishstudies/research.htm#cphd