E-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association

ISSN: 1936-8879

Journals / Vol 4 (2011)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

GENERAL ARTICLES

Genetic Research and Hungarian "Deep Ancestry"

Nándor Dreisziger Royal Military College of Canada

Undead Blond Hair in the Victorian Imagination: The Hungarian Roots of Bram Stoker’s "The Secret of the Growing Gold"

Abigail Heiniger Wayne State University, Detroit

Playing the Part: Hungarian Boy Scouts and the Performance of Trauma in Interwar Hungary

Steven Jobbitt California Sate University, Fullerton

Language about Language: Notes On The New Hungarian Media Laws

Peter Sherwood University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Languages of Exile and Community in Dezső Kosztolányi's Esti Kornél Cycles

Adriana Varga Indiana University, Bloomington

GENDER CLUSTER - Articles

Cynical References to Political Correctness in Hungarian Media in the 2000s

Erzsébet Barát University of Szeged, Hungary

Interview with Erzsébet Barát, Organizer of the Annual Conference, Language, Ideology, Media: Gender/Sexuality Relations in Hungary

Interview by Erzsébet László Central European University, Budapest

Sleeping with the Political Enemy: Woman’s Place in Discourses of Race and Class Struggle in 20th Century Central Europe

Dániel Bolgár ELTE, Budapest

When Sexism Meets Racism: the 1920 Numerus Clausus Law in Hungary

Katalin Fenyves Budapest College of Communication and Business

Women Authors with/without Gender Studies: the Gendered Regimes of Authority in Hungarian Literary Criticism Today

Györgyi Horváth Balassi Institute and ELTE, Budapest

The Second Sex in Hungary. Simone de Beauvoir and the (Post)-Socialist Condition

Mária Joó ELTE, Budapest

The Anti-Racist Overtones of a Feminist Historical Novel Tetralogy from the 1940s

Judit Kádár College of Nyíregyháza, Hungary

Critical Recognition of Women's Literature in Hungary: Reception of the 'Kitakart Psyché' Series, 2005-2011

Rachel Miller Center for Jewish History, New York

Grammatical Gender Trouble and Hungarian Gender[lessness]. Part I: Comparative Linguistic Gender

Louise O. Vasvári Stony Brook University & New York University

Impersonal Narration in the Prose of Margit Kaffka, Emma Ritoók and Jolán Földes

Edit Zsadányi University of Groningen, Netherlands

GENDER CLUSTER - Reviews

Eva Livia Corredor: "East-West Odyssey"; Zsuzsanna Lápossy Diosy:"Life behind the Iron Curtain"; Kati Marton: "Enemies of the People. My Family’s Journey to North America"

Reviewed by Enikő M. Basa Library of Congress

Ozsvath, Zsuzsanna: "When the Danube Ran Red"; Mandel, Eva Marika: "Le Livre de Mana"; Roth, Marika: "All the Pretty Shoes; A Memoir of Survival and the Feminine Spirit".

Reviewed by Evi Blaikie Freelance Writer

Agatha Schwartz: "Shifting Voices. Feminist Thought and Women’s Writing in Fin-de-Siècle Austria and Hungary"

Reviewed by Anna Borgos Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Institute for Psychology

Rosen, Ilana: "Sister in Sorrow: Life Histories of Female Holocaust Survivors from Hungary"

Reviewed by Larisa Fialkova University of Haifa

Fábián, Katalin: "Contemporary Women’s Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy and Gender Equality"

Reviewed by Penny Shima Glanz Freelance Writer

Tóth, Zsófia Eszter: "Kádár leányai. Nők a szocialista időszakban" [Kádár’s Girls. Women During Socialism]

Reviewed by Susan Glanz St. John’s University, New York

Török, Petra, ed.: "Sorsával tetováltan önmaga. Válogatás Lesznai Anna naplójegyzeteiből" [Tattoed With Her Fate: Excerpts from Anna Lesznai’s Diary]

Reviewed by Ágnes Huszár University of Pécs, Hungary

Kereszty, Orsolya: "Nőnevelés és nemzetépítés Magyarországon 1867-1918" [Women's Education and Nation Building in Hungary in 1867-1918]

Reviewed by Adrienn Nagy University of Pécs, Hungary

Borgos, Anna: "Portrék a Másikról – Alkotónők és alkotótársak a múlt századelőn" [Portraits of the Other. Women Creative Artists and Creative Partners in the Last Century]

Reviewed by Nóra Séllei University of Debrecen, Hungary

Borgos, Anna, ed. Eltitkolt évek: Tizenhat leszbikus életút. [Secret Years: Sixteen Lesbian Life Journeys]

Reviewed by Eszter Zsófia Tóth Hungarian National Archives, Budapest

Varga, Virág and Zsávolya, Zoltán. eds.: "Nő, tükör, írás: Értelmezések a 20. század első felének női irodalmáról" [Woman, Mirror, Writing: Interpretations of Early 20th Century Women’s Literature]

Reviewed by Ágnes Vashegyi MacDonald University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

BIBLIOGRAPHY

English-Language Bibliography of Interest for Hungarian Cultural Studies: 2010-2011

Gergely Tóth and Louise O. Vasvári University of California, Berkeley and Stony Brook University & New York University

GENERAL REVIEWS

Kádár Lynn, Katalin, ed.: " Through an American Lens, Hungary, 1938: Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White"

Reviewed by Joyce Berczik Corbett Independent Scholar

Palasik, Mária: "Félelembe zárt múlt: Politikai gyilkosságok Gyömrőn és környékén 1945-ben" [A Past Kept Secret Through Fear: Political Murders in Gyömrő and the Surroundings in 1945]

Reviewed by Deborah Cornelius Independent Scholar

Kiss, Dénes: "Emberszám"

Reviewed by István Fekete Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem

Frank, Tibor: "Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States, 1919-1945."

Reviewed by Andrew Felkay Kutztown University, Pennsylvania

Széchenyi, Kinga: "Megbélyegzettek. A kitelepítések tragédiája" [Stigmatized. The Tragedy of the Dislocations]; Hantó, Zsuzsa: "Kitiltott családok" [Banished Families]

Reviewed by Katalin Fenyves Budapest College of Communication and Business

Fenyves, Katalin: "Képzelt asszimiláció? Négy zsidó értelmiségi nemzedék önképe" [Imagined Assimilation? The Self-Representation of Four Generations of Jewish Intellectuals]

Reviewed by Mary Gluck Brown University, Rhode Island

Bán, Zsófia and Turai, Hedvig, eds.: "Exposed Memories: Family Pictures in Private and Collective Memory"

Reviewed by Katalin Kádár Lynn ELTE, Budapest

Gerő, András: "Public Space in Budapest: The History of Kossuth Square"

Reviewed by Agata Lisiak Independent scholar, Berlin

Némethy, Judit Kesserű: “Szabadságom lett a börtönöm”: Az argentínai magyar emigráció története 1948-1968

Reviewed by Andrew Ludanyi Ohio Northern University

Ágai, Adolf: "Az örök zsidó. Régi naplók, életképek (1862-1906)" [The Eternal Jew: Old Diaries and Life Sketches (1862-1906)]

Reviewed by David Mandler Stuyvesant High School, New York City

Ábrahám, Barna, ed.: "Magyar-szlovák terminológiai térdések /Maďar-Slovenské terminologické otázky"

Reviewed by Alexander Maxwell Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Jelinek, Yeshayahu A.: "The Carpathian Diaspora: The Jews of Subcarpathian Rus' and Mukachevo"

Reviewed by Ilana Rosen Ben Gurion University of the Negev at Beer Sheva, Israel