Tiszaeszlár „felejthetetlen” emlékei
The “Unforgettable” Memory of Tiszaeszlár

Summary/Abstract: The previous study of the author explores what the participants of the Tiszaeszlár Trials, including Károly Eötvös, Miksa Szabolcsi, József Bary, and Móric Scharf, remembered (and forgot) when they felt that the time has come to reminisce. Continuing in this vein, the present essay traces what “memories” are produced and carried forward by those who do not have their own experiential recollections about the trial. These include traces of memory which found no place in the grand narrative of the case and stayed on the level of local memory and oral transmission. The semantic memory knowledge of the second and third generation who have no episodic memories of their own, has been fully embedded into the procedural memory of the older generation of locals. Beyond analysing family histories hiding in the shadow of “great intellectual discourses”, historians can also explore the output of journalistic or ethnographic data collection projects that deal with local memory.

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