Vol 11 (2018)

Table of Contents

General Articles

Libel or Not? The War of Words between Lajos Kossuth and New York Editor James Watson Webb
Kenneth Nyirady
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1-10
Plaster Archeology in Budapest’s Seventh District: Toward a Mode of Engagement with Architectural Surfaces
László Munteán
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11-22
Denominational Reception of Literary Modernity in Hungary Before 1920
Zoltán Szénási
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23-31
The Travelogues of Gyula Illyés and Lajos Nagy on Their Visit to the Soviet Union
Peter Pastor
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32-47
Versions of Triangular Desire in Hungarian Literature: Reading Sándor Márai and Péter Nádas
Enikő Bollobás
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48-56
Identity and Intergenerational Remembrance Through Traumatic Culinary Nostalgia: Three Generations of Hungarians of Jewish Origin
Louise O. Vasvári
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57-77
Herta Müller’s Atemschaukel (The Hunger Angel) in the Context of Twentieth-Century Forced Migration in East-Central Europe
Ernő Csongor Kiss
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78-88
The Spirit of Radio: Hungary 1956, Radio Free Europe, and the Shadow Public Sphere
Karl Brown
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89-103
Reading Ádám Bodor’s Sinistra körzet [‘The Sinistra Zone’] in English
Ágnes Orzóy
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104-119

Review Article

Miserable Hungarian Occupiers and Their Miserable Subjects: Review Article of Ungváry, Krisztián. A magyar megszálló csapatok a Szovjetunióban, 1941-1944. Esemény - elbeszélés - utóélet [The Hungarian Occupation Troops in the Soviet Union, 1941-1944. Event - Narrative - Afterlife]. Osiris, pp. 467. Maps, Photographs.
István Deák
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120-135

Note

Heritage and Repatriation in the History of Habsburg and Hungarian Archives
James P. Niessen
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136-143

Bibliography

Selected English-Language Bibliography of Interest for Hungarian Cultural Studies: 2017-2018
Zsuzsanna Varga
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144-151

Reviews

Szapor, Judith, Hungarian Women’s Activism in the Wake of the First World War: From Rights to Revanche. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 207 pp. Illus.
Judit Acsády
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152-156
Vörösmarty, Mihály. Csongor és Tünde, Csongor and Tünde - a Fairy Tale Play in Verse. Trans. Peter Zollman [parallel Hungarian-English edition]. Winnetka: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. 80 pp.
Enikő M. Basa
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157-161
Arany, Zsuzsanna. Kosztolányi Dezső élete [‘The Life of Dezső Kosztolányi’]. Budapest: Osiris, 2017. 692 pp. Illus.
Enikő Bollobás
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162-165
Gille, Zsuzsa. 2016. Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud: The Politics of Materiality in the European Union. Bloomington: Indiana UP.
Karl Brown
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166-168
Csatári, Bence. 2017. Nekem írod a dalt. A könnyűzenei cenzúra a Kádár-rendszerben [‘You Write This Song for Me: Pop Music and Censorship in the Kádár Era’]. Budapest: Jaffa. 214 pp.
Gábor Danyi
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169-173
Andaházy-Szeghy Viktor, Györgyi Kalavszky, et al. eds. 2015. Hadikrónika 1939-1945: kézzelfogható hadtörténelem ['War Chronicle 1939-1945: Tangible Military History']. Budapest: Zrinyi. 68 pp. + 2 DVDs + 79 reproduced documentary inserts.
George Deák
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174-177
Jaritz, Gerhard and Katalin Szende, eds. 2016. Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective. From Frontier Zones to Lands in Focus. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. 265 pp., illus.
Ottó Gecser
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178-181
Szőcs, Géza. 2017. Liberty, Rats and Sandpaper [Szabadság, spiclik, dörzspapír]. Trans. Paul Sohar. Island Heights, NJ: Iniquity Press. 112 pp.; Böszörményi, Zoltán. 2018. The Conscience of Trees [A fák lelkiismerete]. Trans. Paul Sohar. Princeton, NJ: Ragged Sky Press. 127 pp.
Pál Hegyi
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182-185
Fábián, Katalin and Korolczuk, Elzbieta (eds.). 2018. Rebellious Parents: Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia. Bloomington: Indiana UP. 364 pp.
Erika Kispéter
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186-188
Kőbányai, János, ed. 2017. Holokauszt-olvasókönyv ['Holocaust Reader']. Budapest: Múlt és Jövő. 792 pp.
Ferenc Laczó
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189-191
Kunt, Gergely. 2017. Kamasztükrök – A hosszú negyvenes évek társadalmi képzetei fiatalok naplóiban [‘Multi-Faceted Reflections – The Diaries of Jewish and Non-Jewish Adolescents in Wartime Hungary’]. Budapest: Korall. 456 pp.
Maya J. Lo Bello
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192-195
Turán, Tamás and Carsten Wilke, eds. 2016. Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary – the "Science of Judaism" Between East and West. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 414 pages.
David Mandler
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196-201
Kékesi, Zoltán. 2015. Agents of Liberation – Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Art and Documentary Film. Trans. Reuben Fowlkes. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press; Saint Helena, CA: Helena History Press. 221 pages.
Catherine Portuges
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202-205
Sándor, Klára. 2017. A székely írás reneszánsza ['The Renaissance of the Székely Script']. Budapest: Typotext. 311 pp.
Peter Sherwood
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206-208
Laczó, Ferenc 2016. Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide: An Intellectual History, 1929-1948. Leiden: Brill. 239 pp.
Ildikó Szántó
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209-212
Feichtinger, Johannes and Gary B. Cohen, eds. 2014. Understanding Multiculturalism: The Habsburg Central European Experience. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. 246 pp.
Christopher M. VanDemark
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213-215