Love and Survival in Budapest: The Memoir of Artur Renyi

About the Editor(s)

Ilonka Venier Alexander is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist with thirty years' experience in the field of mental health. She had the opportunity to testify before the United States Congress in the early days of the HIV epidemic about its impact on Boston area veterans. For years her area of specialization was adults with a severe and persistent mental illness. Later in her career she helped to write the mental health standards for children and adolescents in Nova Scotia, at the time the only such standards in Canada. She received her Masters of Social Work degree from the University of Southern California and is the granddaughter of Dr Franz Alexander, founder of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.

Nauszika Mathe-Arvay was born in Budapest in 1973 and still lives in the neighbourhood, where for the last decade she has worked as a psychologist for an elementary school. She is especially interested in how to create an integrative community in which every member can play a valuable role, applying narrative methods and restorative practice. She considers all personal, family, and community roots, as well as intercultural aspects, very important.

Zsuzsanna Rényi worked as a historian for the Hungarian Academy's Research Institute and was a lecturer for ELTE University in Budapest. She has retired but is still doing translations as well as teaching English. She is especially interested in Anglo-American cultural history and civilization. In recent years she has published a book of interviews about his father, the mathematician Alfred Rényi. She is enjoying family life and her grandchildren.