Book presentation: "Hungarian Roots & American Dreams: Tracing Personal and Local History"

Type of Abstract (select): Book Presentation

Abstract (max. 250 words):
Bakos, Réka, and Anna Fenyvesi, eds. 2025. "Hungarian Roots & American Dreams: Tracing Personal and Local History" (rootStories, pp. 445) is the second collection, published in the fall of 2025, of family stories involving immigration from Hungary to the United States that explores the personal journeys of Hungarian emigrants to the United States and their descendants. In addition to presenting 58 new family stories, the present volume 2 also overviews the most important settlements in the United States where Hungarian immigrants have lived, framing the personal narratives in both space and time.


Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Anna Fenyvesi is a linguist and associate professor at Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Szeged. She has studied the linguistic and cultural life of Hungarian-American communities since the 1990s, when she spent several years in Pittsburgh as a graduate student. Her linguistic research focuses on bilingualism, linguistic heritage, and identity preservation, most recently supported by a Fulbright research grant in 2024. Since 2019, she has also been carrying out family history research.