The Road to Dura-Europos
The Road to Dura-Europos

Summary/Abstract: "I never did make it to Miskolc. So I never found out whether it is anything like Chicago. But driving through the flat cornfields of Hungary, it occurred to me that my family’s corn-drenched cuisine may have come from Hungary along with the paprika, rather than from the Illinois cornfields surrounding the industrial city to which my great grandparents emigrated. Do émigrés perhaps choose to live in places like those they left behind? Or is it more accurate to say that they live lives of comparison? Frankfurt on the Hudson.1 Moscow on the Hudson.2 Vilna on the Seine.3 And Miskolc on Lake Michigan."

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