E-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association

ISSN: 1936-8879

Journals / Vol 5 (2012)

Table of Contents

General Articles

Will Hungarian Private Collectors Turn International? Private Engagement in Contemporary Art in East Central Europe

Gábor Ébli Moholy-Nagy University, Budapest

Propaganda Versus Genocide: The United States War Refugee Board and the Hungarian Holocaust

Dorottya Halász University of Miskolc

Concealed in the Open: Recipients of International Clandestine Jewish Aid in Early 1950s Hungary

Zachary Paul Levine Yeshiva University Museum, New York

Tobacco as Cultural Signifier: A Cultural History of Masculinity and Nationality in Habsburg Hungary

Alexander Maxwell Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Ready to Secede to the Ottoman Empire: Habsburg Hungary after the Vasvár Peace Treaty (1664-1674)

Georg B. Michels University of California, Riverside

Disputed Past: The Friendship and Competing Memories of Anna Lesznai and Emma Ritoók

Judith Szapor McGill University, Canada

The Places of Memory in a Square of Monuments: Conceptions of Past, Freedom and History at Szabadság Tér

Erik Thorstensen The Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Norway

The Hungarian Peculiarities of National Remembrance: Historical Figures with Symbolic Importance in Nineteenth-century Hungarian History Paintings

Zsuzsanna Tóth University of Szeged (SZTE)

Reviews

Zrínyi, Miklós. The Siege of Sziget. Trans. László Kőrössy

Reviewed by Enikő M. Basa Library of Congress

Schult, Tanja. A Hero’s Many Faces: Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments

Reviewed by Ruth G. Biro Duquesne University

Csapody, Tamás. Bori Munkaszolgálatosok: Fejezetek a Bori Munkaszolgálat Történetéből. [The Forced Laborers of Bor: Chapters from the History of the Forced Laborers of Bor]

Reviewed by Julia Bock Long Island University, Brooklyn

Király, Péter. A honalapítás vitás eseményei: A kalandozások és a honfoglalás éve [The Disputed Events of the Establishment of a Homeland: The Marauding Expeditions and the Year of the Conquest].

Reviewed by Nándor Dreisziger Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Sakmyster, Thomas. Red Conspirator: J. Peters and the American Communist Underground

Reviewed by Andrew Felkay Kutztown University of PA

Piotrowski, Piotr. In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-Garde in Eastern Europe 1945-1989. Translated by Anna Brzyski

Reviewed by Éva Forgács Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Kisantal, Tamás and Anna Menyhért, eds. Művészet és hatalom: a Kádár-korszak művészete [Art and Power. Art During the Kádár-Epoch]

Reviewed by Ágnes Vashegyi MacDonald Langara College, Vancouver

Séllei, Nóra. Miért félünk a farkastól: feminista irodalomszemlélet itt és most [Why Are We Afraid of (Virginia) Wolf? Feminist Literary Views Here and Now]

Reviewed by Anna Menyhért Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Barraud, Clement William, S.J. Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Historical Drama in Five Acts (1892)

Marianne Sághy Central European University, Budapest

Schandl, Veronika. Socialist Shakespeare Productions in Kádár-regime Hungary

Reviewed by Bálint Szele Kodolányi János University, Székesfehérvár, Hungary

Csepeli, György, István Murányi, Gergő Prazsák. Új tekintélyelvűség a mai Magyarországon

Reviewed by Mihály Szilágyi-Gál Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Gál, Vilmos. Hungary at the World Fairs: 1851-2010

Reviewed by Zsuzsanna Tóth University of Szeged, Hungary

Lisiak, Agata Anna. Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe

Reviewed by Alexander Vari Marywood University, Scranton, PA

Cluster Articles: Hungarian Borders, [Im]migration, Diasporas

Multicultural Societies: Kálmán Mikszáth, Pál Závada and Péter Huncik

Enikő Molnár Basa Library of Congress

Danilo Kiš and the Hungarian Holocaust: The Early Novel Psalm 44

John K. Cox North Dakota State University

Sociolinguistic and Contact-induced Variation in Hungarian Language Use in Subcarpathia, Ukraine

István Csernicskó and Anna Fenyvesi II. Rákóczi Ferenc Subcarpathian Hungarian College and University of Szeged

Jewish Name Magyarization in Hungary

Tamás Farkas Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Extra Hungariam Non Est Vita? The Relationships between Hungarian Immigrants and Their Homeland

Éva V. Huseby-Darvas University of Michigan-Dearborn

'Should We Leave or Stay?' Notes on Recent Hungarian Outmigration

Éva V. Huseby-Darvas University of Michigan-Dearborn

The Characteristics of Hungarian Women’s Names in Slovakia

Katalin Misad Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Displaying Diaspora: Chinese Christian Presence in Hungary after 1989

Dorottya Nagy Central and Eastern European Institute for Mission Studies, Budapest

Exiled Hungarians in Argentina 1948-1968: The Formation of a Community

Judith Kesserű Némethy New York University

Review Article: Inventing Historical Myths—Deborah S. Cornelius. Hungary in World War II. Caught in the Cauldron.

Peter Pastor Montclair State University, New Jersey

Hollywood on the Danube: Hungarian Filmmakers in a Transnational Context

Catherine Portuges University of Massachusetts Amherst

Tripping over the Dead: Hungarian-Israeli Holocaust Survivor Women's Narratives of Immigration, Restoration, and Remembrance

Ilana Rosen Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Bilingual Experience in the Hungarian and German Immigrant Communities of the San Francisco Bay Area

Gergely Tóth University of California, Berkeley

Issues of Assimilation, Language and Identity in the Lives of Young Max Nordau and Tivadar Herzl

Hedvig Ujvári Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary

Bibiliographies

A Selected and Annotated Bibliography for the Research of Official Surname Changes in Hungary

Tamás Farkas Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

English-Language Bibliography of Interest for Hungarian Cultural Studies: 2011-2012

Louise O. Vasvári Stony Brook University & New York University

Cluster Reviews

Kopacsi-Gelberger, Judit Heroes Don't Cry

Reviewed by Susan Glanz St. John’s University, NY

Rosen, Ilana. Soul of Saul: The Life, Narrative, and Proverbs of a Transylvanian-Israeli Grandfather

Reviewed by Michal Held The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Dent, Bob. Inside Hungary From Outside

Reviewed by Györgyi Horváth Balassi Institute for Hungarian Culture, Budapest

Kocsis, Aranka. Magyar Faluk és Magyar Falusiak a Szlovák Fôvárosban. Városiasodás és Etnicitás a 20. Század Pozsony Szélén [Hungarian Villages and Hungarian Villagers in the Slovakian Capital. Urbanization and Ethnicity]

Reviewed by Éva V. Huseby-Darvas Ann Arbor, MI

Adam, Christopher, Tibor Egervari, Leslie Laczko, Judy Young, Eds. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution – Hungarian & Canadian Perspectives

Reviewed by Emese Ivan St. John’s University, New York

Vida, István Kornél. Hungarian Emigres in the American Civil War: A History and Biographical Dictionary

Reviewed by Kenneth Nyirády Library of Congress

Várnai, Pál. Élet/eim [My Life/Lives]

Reviewed by Jozsef Orosz University of Ottawa, Canada

Rounds, Carol H. and Erika Sólyom. Colloquial Hungarian. The Complete Course for Beginners

Reviewed by Peter Sherwood University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sándor, Klára. Nyelvrokonság és hunhagyomány. Rénszarvas vagy csodaszarvas? Nyelvtörténet és művelődéstörténet. [Linguistic Kinship and the Hun Tradition. Reindeer or Miracle Stag? The History of Language and the History of Culture]

Reviewed by Peter Sherwood University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Farkas, Tamás, Kozma, István, eds. A családnév-változtatások történetei időben, térben, társadalomban. [The Histories of Family Name Changes in Time, Space and Society]

Reviewed by Mariann Slíz Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Nye, Mary Jo. Michael Polanyi and His Generation; Origins of the Social Construction of Science

Reviewed by Judith Szapor McGill University

Cooper, Thomas. The Holocaust as Culture. A Conversation with Imre Kertész

Reviewed by Teri Szűcs Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Bárdi, Nándor, Csilla Fedinec, László Szarka, eds. Minority Hungarian Communities in the Twentieth Century

Reviewed by Bálint Varga University of Mainz

Schwarz, Agatha, Ed. Gender and Modernity in Central Europe : the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and its Legacy

Reviewed by Zsuzsanna Varga University of Glasgow

Waterbury, Myra A. Between State and Nation: Diaspora Politics and Kin-State Nationalism in Hungary

Reviewed by Leslie Waters The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg,VA