As this, May 2012 edition of the Hungarian Review goes to press, the Hungarian Parliament is electing a new President. In his inaugural address, János Áder shed his party shoes
Experts on terrorism have recently begun speaking of a phenomenon they term “self Islam”. This refers to the fact that many dangerous extremists act not out of loyalty to a
Since Christmas several reports and opinions have appeared in the international media painting a bleak picture of the state of democracy in Hungary, heaping heavy criticism on the government. The
The House of Terror at Ten – Director Mária Schmidt in conversation with Nick Thorpe NT: Let’s start at the very beginning. You opened ten years ago, amidst great controversy: about
Catch-up Strategies in the Far East South Korea: Miracle on the Han River As a result of its almost unparalleled economic growth, today South Korea is one of the leading
Restoring Oxbows in Austria and Germany Up to the middle of the 19th century, the Danube was a free-flowing wild river in most parts. Maps, pictures and travel reports from
The Road to a Presidency “I’ll never forget that taxi driver in Munich, who drove me home from Radio Free Europe headquarters not long after Havel moved into his new
The name József Antall has become almost emblematic of the change of regimes that took place in Hungary in 1990. He has become an important figure of history, with all
The Recent emergence of the notion of historical repentance and the accompanying requests for forgiveness pose troubling questions. It is something of a novelty in political and international life. Justifications
Lajtha, Höllering and Eliot “Les trois grands Hongrois” – the “Three Great Hungarians”: this is how the French referred to the three preeminent Hungarian composers of the first half of
Excrept from a Book – Text and drawings from István Orosz Whether into hell or heaven, as ambassador now enter – as a hasty harbinger, whose only mission is to
Chapters 5 and 6 Born in Budapest in 1935, George Jonas first spoke gibberish, then German, and finally settled on Hungarian in preparation for a lifetime of writing in English.
Poems of Hungary AUTHOR’S NOTE We arrived in Budapest for a year’s stay on the day Princess Diana died, 1997, so these poems speak for an earlier era, then recently
Letter to the Editor from Frank Koszorús, Jr., Washington DC In march 1944, greater Hungary’s Jewish population exceeded 800,000. Nazi Germany invaded Hungary and installed a pro-German government that month,
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