One Must Also Be Hungarian

Author : Adam Biro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0226052133

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The only country in the world with a line in its national anthem as desperate as “this people has already suffered for its past and its future,” Hungary is a nation defined by poverty, despair, and conflict. Its history, of course, took an even darker and more tragic turn during the Holocaust. But the story of the Jews in Hungary is also one of survival, heroism, and even humor—and that is the one acclaimed author Adam Biro sets out to recover in One Must Also Be Hungarian, an inspiring and altogether poignant look back at the lives of his family members over the past two hundred years. A Hungarian refugee and celebrated novelist working in Paris, Biro recognizes the enormous sacrifices that his ancestors made to pave the way for his successes and the envious position he occupies as a writer in postwar Europe. Inspired, therefore, to share the story of his family members with his grandson, Biro draws some moving pictures of them here: witty and whimsical vignettes that convey not only their courageous sides, but also their inner fears, angers, jealousies, and weaknesses—traits that lend an indelible humanity to their portraiture. Spanning the turn of the nineteenth century, two destructive world wars, the dramatic rise of communism, and its equally astonishing fall, the stories here convey a particularly Jewish sense of humor and irony throughout—one that made possible their survival amid such enormous adversity possible. Already published to much acclaim in France, One Must Also Be Hungarian is a wry and compulsively readable book that rescues from oblivion the stories of a long-suffering but likewise remarkable and deservedly proud people.

Author : Adam Biro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226052199

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The only country in the world with a line in its national anthem as desperate as “this people has already suffered for its past and its future,” Hungary is a nation defined by poverty, despair, and conflict. Its history, of course, took an even darker and more tragic turn during the Holocaust. But the story of the Jews in Hungary is also one of survival, heroism, and even humor—and that is the one acclaimed author Adam Biro sets out to recover in One Must Also Be Hungarian, an inspiring and altogether poignant look back at the lives of his family members over the past two hundred years. A Hungarian refugee and celebrated novelist working in Paris, Biro recognizes the enormous sacrifices that his ancestors made to pave the way for his successes and the envious position he occupies as a writer in postwar Europe. Inspired, therefore, to share the story of his family members with his grandson, Biro draws some moving pictures of them here: witty and whimsical vignettes that convey not only their courageous sides, but also their inner fears, angers, jealousies, and weaknesses—traits that lend an indelible humanity to their portraiture. Spanning the turn of the nineteenth century, two destructive world wars, the dramatic rise of communism, and its equally astonishing fall, the stories here convey a particularly Jewish sense of humor and irony throughout—one that made possible their survival amid such enormous adversity possible. Already published to much acclaim in France, One Must Also Be Hungarian is a wry and compulsively readable book that rescues from oblivion the stories of a long-suffering but likewise remarkable and deservedly proud people.

Author : Ferenc Hörcher,Thomas Lorman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786725301

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A History of the Hungarian Constitution by Ferenc Hörcher,Thomas Lorman Pdf

The new Hungarian Basic Law, which was ratified on 1 January 2012, provoked domestic and international controversy. Of particular concern was the constitutional text's explicit claim that it was situated within a reinvigorated Hungarian legal tradition that had allegedly developed over centuries before its violent interruption during World War II, by German invaders, and later, by Soviet occupation. To explore the context and validity of this claim, and the legal traditions which have informed the stormy centuries of Hungary's constitutional development, this book brings together a group of leading historians, political scientists and legal scholars to produce a comprehensive history of Hungarian constitutional thought. Ranging in scope from an overview of Hungarian medieval jurisprudence to an assessment of the various criticisms levelled at the new Hungarian Basis Law of 2012, contributors assess the constitutions, their impacts and their legacies, as well as the social and cultural contexts within which they were drafted. The historical analysis is accompanied by a selection of original source materials, many translated here for the first time. This is the only book in English on the subject and is essential reading for all those interested in Hungary's history, political culture and constitution.

Author : Ferenc Kiefer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0700708766

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On Emphasis and Word Order in Hungarian by Ferenc Kiefer Pdf

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.

Author : György Kalmár
Publisher : Springer
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319636641

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Formations of Masculinity in Post-Communist Hungarian Cinema by György Kalmár Pdf

This book investigates the formations of masculinity in Hungarian cinema after the fall of communism and explores some of the cultural phenomena of the years following the 1989 regime change. The films explored offer a unique perspective encompassing two entirely different worlds: state socialism and neoliberal capitalism. The films suggest that Eastern Europe is somehow different than its western counterpart and that its subjects are marked by what they went through before and after 1989. These films are all remembering, interpreting, picturing, marketing and trying to come to terms with this difference—with the memory and effects of state-socialism. In looking closely at the films’ male figures, one may not only get a glimpse of the dramatic changes Eastern European societies went through after the fall of communism but also see the brave new world of global neoliberal capitalism through the eyes of the Eastern European newcomers.

Author : Csaba B‚k‚s,Malcolm Byrne,M. J nos Rainer
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9639241660

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The 1956 Hungarian Revolution by Csaba B‚k‚s,Malcolm Byrne,M. J nos Rainer Pdf

This volume presents the story of the Hungarian Revolution in 120 original documents, ranging from the minutes of Khrushchev's first meeting with Hungarian leaders after Stalin's death in 1953, to Yeltsin's declaration on Hungary in 1992. The great majority of the material comes from archives that were inaccessible until the 1990s, and appears here in English for the first time. Book jacket.

Author : Joseph C. Brada,Istvan Dobozi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781315491677

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Money, Incentives and Efficiency in the Hungarian Economic Reform by Joseph C. Brada,Istvan Dobozi Pdf

The essays in this volume document the serious shortcomings of the Hungarian economic reform, which in two decades has brought deteriorating economic performance, declining real wages, a fiscal deficit and severe inflationary pressures. It has proved unexpectedly difficult to substitute a regulated market economy for a centrally planned one. The authors of these essays argue that the problems stem from the incompleteness of the reforms and their compromise character. Today, as the Hungarians prepare to implement more radical measures, constraining the Communist party and rolling back state ownership, they do so under economically difficult conditions.

Author : Moshe Y. Herczl,Mosheh Y. Hertsel
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814735206

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Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry by Moshe Y. Herczl,Mosheh Y. Hertsel Pdf

The role of the Christian church in Hungary during the Nazis' campaign of Jewish mass extermination has been largely forgotten, or repressed. This documentation and analysis of the church's lack of compassion-- and active persecution--of Hungary's Jews during this period begins with the arrival of Jews in Hungary at the end of the 17th century and traces the history of the Jewish community there. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2993323

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The New Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hungary. Orszoggyülés, 1861
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103163663

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The Addresses of the Hungarian Diet of 1861, to H.I.M. the Emperor of Austria by Hungary. Orszoggyülés, 1861 Pdf

Author : C.A. Macartney,László Péter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429515170

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Studies on Early Hungarian and Pontic History by C.A. Macartney,László Péter Pdf

Published in 1999, Professor C.A. Macartney was one of the foremost 20th-century authorities on the history of the Danube basin. His life’s work included the re-examination of the sources relating to early Hungarian and Pontic history. This selection of his studies (some of them hardly accessible because they were published in wartime conditions) illuminates one of the dark corners of medieval Europe and tackles controversial questions in the history of the nomadic steppe peoples, such as the Magyars, Pechenegs, Kavars and Cumans. Macartney’s treatment of the earliest Hungarian written sources and their interpretation laid the foundation for his shorter book, The Medieval Hungarian Historians. The present volume brings together for the first time, and indexes, his series of detailed studies on this material; penetrating in both its analysis and scholarship, this work remains indispensable for our understanding of the period and its historiography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Hungary
ISBN : UOM:35112104514072

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The Hungarian Peace Negotiations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : WISC:89077096808

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The Presbyterian and Reformed Review by Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield Pdf

Includes section "Reviews of recent theological literature".

Author : Lynn M. Hooker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199908851

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Redefining Hungarian Music from Liszt to Bartók by Lynn M. Hooker Pdf

Some of the most popular works of nineteenth-century music were labeled either "Hungarian" or "Gypsy" in style, including many of the best-known and least-respected of Liszt's compositions. In the early twentieth century, Béla Bartók and his colleagues questioned not only the Hungarianness but also the good taste of that style. Bartók argued that it should be discarded in favor of a national style based in the "genuine" folk music of the rural peasantry. Between the heyday of the nineteenth-century Hungarian-Gypsy style and its replacement by a new paradigm of "authentic" national style was a vigorous decades-long debate-one little known inside or outside Hungary-over what it meant to be Hungarian, European, and modern. Redefining Hungarian Music from Liszt to Bartók traces the historical process that defined the conventions of Hungarian-Gypsy style. Author Lynn M. Hooker frames her study around the 1911 celebration of Liszt's centennial. In so doing, she analyzes Liszt's problematic role as a Hungarian-born composer and leader of Hungarian art music who spent most of his life outside of Hungary and questioned whether Hungary's national music was more the creation of Hungarians or Roma (Gypsies). The themes of race and nation that emerge in the discussion of Liszt are further developed in an analysis of discourse on Hungarian national music throughout the Hungarian press in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Showing how the "discovery" of "genuine" folk music by Bartók and Kodály, often depicted as a purely "scientific" matter, responds directly to concerns raised by earlier writers about the "problem of Hungarian music," Hooker argues that the innovations of Bartók and Kodály and their circle are not so much in correcting a flawed concept of the national as in using the idea of national authenticity to open up freedom for composers to explore more stylistic options, including the exploration of modernist musical language. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Redefining Hungarian Music from Liszt to Bartók is essential reading for musicologists, musicians, and concertgoers alike.

Author : András Kiséry,Zsolt Komáromy,Zsuzsanna Varga
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781611478419

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Worlds of Hungarian Writing by András Kiséry,Zsolt Komáromy,Zsuzsanna Varga Pdf

Worlds of Hungarian Writing responds to the rapidly growing interest in Hungarian authors throughout the English-speaking world. Addressing an international audience, the essays in the collection highlight the intercultural contexts that have molded the conventions, genres and institutions of Hungarian writing from the nineteenth century to the present. They are mapping some of the ways in which a modern literature is produced by encounters with languages, cultures, and media external to its traditionally conceived boundaries. But rather than viewing intercultural exchange as an external force, the collection recognizes its enabling importance to the globalizing reception and circulation of Hungarian writing over the continuities and constraints implied by more traditional national narratives. Worlds of Hungarian Writing posits intercultural exchange as the very substance of a literary culture.Discussions of the politics of appropriation and translation, of the impact of émigré writers and critics, and of the use of world-literary models in genre-formation complement studies of the fate of western leftist critical theory in post-1989 Hungary, of the role of African-American models in contemporary Roma culture, and of the use of photography in late 20th-century prose. The volume spans a wide generic range, from the achievements of such canonical 19th-century critics and poets as József Bajza and János Arany, to neglected women authors-translators such as Theresa Pulszky, to modernist writers and critics like Antal Szerb and György Lukács, and to the contemporary novelists Péter Esterházy, Péter Nádas, and László Krasznahorkai. Each essay is an original contribution to comparative literature and to the study of this Central-European literature, but is intended to be accessible to readers unfamiliar with its traditions.