Tag #136333 - Interview #78490 (Katalin Kallos Havas)

Following the Revolution of 1989 [25], our attitude towards religion didn’t change. I usually go to the synagogue twice a year: when we pray for the dead and when we commemorate the deportations. The other occasions when I go to the synagogue are not religious, but cultural events. My husband still isn’t a religious man, but despite that he goes to the synagogue to pray each Saturday morning to have the minyan. He speaks perfect Yiddish because his family used to talk in Yiddish at home. He can read the Torah, and that’s quite rare these days. My husband was the president of the Jewish community for four years, from 1997 to 2001. He goes to the community to help out, even though he has too little strength and time for it. He still lectures at Babes–Bolyai University; there are still doctorates under his guidance.