Utopia is always an important country, always one of the great powers. English columnist Frank Johnson Other things being equal, the editors of Hungarian Review would prefer to be dealing
What comes as recognition out of the blue is often mistaken for a major juncture. The shock of revelation can usually be dampened if it is possible to say that
In late September I visited Thuringia on an official trip to attend a conference on regional planning. I took a train to Bad Blankenburg, an enchanting small town tucked away
Part I With entire peoples on the move, we live once again in the age of great migrations. While migration is as old as humanity, today it has become a
Part II REMEMBERING THE GREAT HUNGARIAN STATESMAN AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER: JÓZSEF EÖTVÖS One of the many (and unfortunate) paradoxes of Hungarian cultural and political life has to do with the
“As a Hungarian, Stefan and his family may have faced discrimination in Czechoslovakia. As Catholic “Hunkys”, they definitely faced discrimination in the United States as it was during the first
A Voice for Minorities in Dangerous Times Part I Chief of the Prime Ministerial Department Ödön Pásint (1900–1950) was the Transylvanian born son of a Unitarian pastor’s family, later on
However many the items of knowledge imparted by a Hungarian schooling, two in particular are all but universal. One seldom finds a person even of a distinctly unbookish tendency that
INTRODUCTION I came to Hungary in the autumn of 1987 as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies at Kossuth Lajos University that has since become part of the University
A prolific Hungarian poet, fiction-writer, essayist and playwright, Csaba Lászlóffy (1938–2015), member of the Hungarian ethnic minority in Romania, lived part of his life under the dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu, in
A Play in Two Acts Act One Scene One A dismal office. Shelves up to the ceiling, several filing cabinets, a safe. Two desks with files piled up on
Katalin Petényi and Barna Kabay have put together a series of nine films presenting some of the fundamental strands that link the cultures of Italy and Hungary. The tenth movie
For more than a century the complexity of Ödön Lechner’s experiment with a “Hungarian style” has generated fierce theoretical debates, often strongly influenced by contemporary politics. It is the sort
BERNARD ADAMS was born in 1937 in the Black Country of the English West Midlands. Educated at King Edward’s School, Birmingham, he did his National Service in the regimental band
Árpád Kadarkay, who became an ever-responsive reader, then a house author, then a personal friend of the Hungarian Review team, deceased in his home in Tacoma, Washington, USA, in late
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