Tag #156715 - Interview #78355 (Mrs. Gábor Révész)

As far as their religion was concerned, all I can say is that they merely kept the formalities. I would think that the Jewish families in the village must have kept a kosher home. It was the norm. But later the children were not religious at all, by which I mean my grandparents’ generation, though the old people kept things up. My mother also told us – it was something of a family legend – that once when she spent the summer with them, her grandmother gave a pair of chickens to my grandfather to take them to the shochet to the neighbouring village, which was not far. And then her grandmother said to her granddaughter, meaning my mother, “Do you know, child, where that shochet lives?” And my mother said, “No, I don’t know.” “Behind the pub, because that’s where your grandfather takes them, kills them, goes sits in the pub, then after an hour, comes home.” In short, my great-grandfather didn’t take this thing too seriously, but neither did my great-grandmother, it seems, because she didn’t make a big deal out of it.