Recent issues of Hungarian Review have been heavily preoccupied with the migrant crisis as it affects Hungary and Europe. We wish it had been otherwise. Some days the editors feel
A New East–West Divide in Sight? Hosted by the King of Hungary, Caroberto of Anjou, in October 1335, the kings of Poland and Bohemia (today’s Czech lands), Kazimierz the Great
In Kiev, another very turbulent month has just ended, bringing more political uncertainty and public distrust than concrete answers. Among other factors, the Ukrainian president’s call on the Prime Minister
On the Fatal Consequences of Broken Traditions In the Arab world the most often repeated slogan of our age is Al-Islam din wa dawla: Islam is state and religion. It
EARLY EMIGRATION FROM HUNGARY Early Hungarian migration history has a remarkable and well-documented chapter known as peregrination: the story of Hungarian students studying at foreign universities. Before Péter Cardinal Pázmány
THE MAGNITUDE OF THE CURRENT MIGRATION AND REFUGEE CRISIS According to the OECD, “Europe will record in 2015 an unprecedented number of asylum seekers and refugees with up to one
It is still early days for writing about the mass migration phenomenon that dominated European headlines in 2015, and is likely to continue dominating them this year. The discourse is still largely on the journalistic and political level, steeped in the different ideologies of the moment. There is a deep polarisation between
What is communism? Is it a beautiful idea, a utopian dream of bright future? Is it a coherent ideology of “historical materialism”, one that will abolish exploitation, eradicate inequality and
The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him.The unreasonable man adapts conditions to himself. All progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw A Conservative is
A Voice for Minorities in Dangerous Times Part II 1949–50: HOPELESSNESS […] Ödön Pásint retired […] at 48, but possibly not quite on his own initiative. As the “bourgeois” traditions
I mentioned to a friend yesterday that I was preparing a lecture for the Night University and he was naturally interested in the topic. When I said I would talk
Once in a fictivetime, in a fabulousland,a rider forced hisway across thesteppes, hurried to war, butin the nearingdistance, through thesteppe’s dust- haze,the dark wood – warnings nettles –scrape at his
Zoltán Kodály published two works under the title Háry János. The first, a Singspiel, received its première on 16 October 1926 at the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest, with
The aim of this study is to give a brief overview of the creation and history of the plaster cast collection of medieval and Renaissance sculptures of the Budapest Museum
On the Occasion of his Receiving the Jenő Szervátiusz Award, Budapest, 12 November 2015 The Jenő Szervátiusz Award was originally created to honour artists (painters, sculptors and graphic artists), but
ZSÓFIA BOGNÁR (Szeged, 1988) got her BA in Hungarian at the University of Debrecen in 2010 before earning an MA in Art History at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2015.
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