E-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association

ISSN: 1936-8879

Journals / Vol 6 (2013)

Table of Contents

This Issue Is Dedicated to Adam Makkai

Adam Makkai: Polyglot Linguist, Poet and Literary Translator Between Languages

Louise O. Vasvári Stony Brook University & New York University

General Articles

Text as Palimpsest: Gender in the Work of Agota Kristof

Simona Cutcan National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Ármin Vámbéry (1832-1913) as a Historian of Early Hungarian Settlement in the Carpathian Basin

Nándor Dreisziger Royal Military College of Canada

Contextualizing History in Hungarian Films of the New Millennium

Clara Orban DePaul University

The New World is An Other World: Hungarian Transatlantic Emigrants' Handbooks and Guidebooks, 1903-1939

István Kornél Vida University of Debrecen, Hungary

Cluster Articles: Teaching and Translating Hungarian Language and Culture

From Autobiography to Fiction, or Translating Géza Csáth’s Diary from Hungarian to French and to Polish

Mateusz Chmurski Interdisciplinary Center for Central-European Studies, Paris-Sorbonne University (CIRCE)

Translating Family Names in Hungarian: A Diachronic Survey

Tamás Farkas and Mariann Slíz Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Hungarian gyerekestül vs. gyerekkel (‘with [the] kid’)

István Fekete Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Bridging Cultural Borders: American Students’ Pedagogical Cross-Cultural Experiences in Hungary

Jackie Greene and Elia Vázquez-Montilla Florida Gulf Coast University

The Kodály and Rajkó Methods: Voices, Instruments, Ethnicity, and the Globalization of Hungarian Music Education in the Twentieth Century

Lynn M. Hooker Indiana University, Bloomington

Towards a Methodology of the Intercultural Teaching of Hungarian Literature to Speakers of Hungarian as a Second/Foreign Language

Györgyi Horváth University of Pécs

Pilot Course or Flying University? A University Course on Hungarian Language and History Taught in Wellington, New Zealand

Bálint Koller and Alexander Maxwell

Translating Welsh Drama Into Hungarian Through English: A Contextual Introduction to Sêra Moore Williams’ Crash in Hungarian Translation

Márta Minier University of South Wales, UK

Translating Shakespeare for the Hungarian Stage: Contemporary Perspectives

Bálint Szele Kodolányi János College, Székesfehérvár, Hungary

Transylvanianism, Nationalism, Folklore: The Academic Career of Olga Nagy in the Light of her Posthumous Book, Vallomások (2010)

Kata Zsófia Vincze Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Bibliography

[English-Language] Bibliography of Interest for Hungarian Cultural Studies: 2012-2013

Louise O. Vasvári Stony Brook University & New York University

Reviews

Agatha Hoff. Burning Horses - A Hungarian Life Turned Upside Down

Reviewed by Evi Blaikie Freelance Writer

Zoltán Fleck. Változások és változatlanságok - A magyar jogrendszer a rendszerváltozás után [Continuity and Discontinuity - The Hungarian Legal System after the Change of the System]

Reviewed by György Csepeli, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Bálint Gárdos, Ágnes Péter, Natália Pikli, and Maté Vince, eds. Confrontations and Interactions- Essays on Cultural Memory

Reviewed by Marguerite De Huszar Allen Northwestern University

György Faludy. Silver Pirouettes Trans. Paul Sohar.

Reviewed by Péter Hargitai Florida International University

Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger, eds. Communism Unwrapped - Consumption in Cold War E. Europe; Cathleen M. Giustino, Catherine J. Plum, & Alexander Vari, eds. Socialist Escapes - Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in E. Europe

Reviewed by Agata A. Lisiak Humboldt University, Berlin

Tamas Dobozy. Siege 13

Reviewed by Ágnes Vashegyi MacDonald Columbia College, Vancouver, Canada

Judith Szapor, Andrea Pető, Maura Hametz, & Marina Calloni, eds. Jewish Intellectual Women in Central Europe 1860-2000 - Twelve Biographical Essays

Reviewed by Ágnes Vashegyi MacDonald Columbia College, Vancouver, Canada

Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári, eds. Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies

Reviewed by Dorottya Nagy University of South Africa / Göttingen, Germany

Sándor Szathmári. Voyage to Kazohinia Trans. Inez Kemenes

Reviewed by William Oberly University of Minnesota

Ilona Kovács, ed. Katonalevelek- Az amerikai magyarok második generációja az amerikai hadseregben a második világháború idején, 1942-1945/Soldier Letters- Second Generation American Hungarian Soldiers in the US Army during World War II, 1942-1945

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

Judit Kováts. Megtagadva [Denied]

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

Mónika Kozári. A nyugdíjrendszer magyarországon Mária Teréziától a második világháborúig [The Pension System in Hungary from Maria Theresa to World War II]

Reviewed by Balázs Sipos Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Zoltán Kékesi. Haladék - Holokauszt-emlékezet a kortárs képzőművészetben [Respite - The Memory of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art)]

Reviewed by Teri Szűcs Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Amália Kerekes, Melinda Kindl, & Judit Szabó, eds. Post Festum. Szabadtéri játékok a két világháború között Salzburgban, Szegeden és Pécsett [Post Festum: Outdoor Festivals at Salzburg, Szeged and Pécs during the Interwar Period]

Reviewed by Alexander Vári Marywood University, Scranton, PA