Vol 7 (2014)

Table of Contents

Dedication: Seventy Years On, 1944-2014

Review Article: The Saddest History Ever Written: On Randolph L. Braham’s "The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary" (2013)
Marguerite De Huszar Allen
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1-10
Review Article: The Vanished Ghosts in Two Hungarian Family Memoirs. Farkas, Charles. 2013. Vanished by the Danube: Peace, War, Revolution, and Flight to the West (Introduction by Margaret McMullan). Albany: Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press. 472 pp. Illus; and Barlay, Nick. 2013. Scattered Ghosts: One Family's Survival through War, Holocaust and Revolution. London and New York: I. B. Tauris. 240 pp. Illus.
Ruth G. Biro
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11-20
Review Article: Souls, Hearts and Heritage: Passing from the Danube to the Hudson. Szegedy-Maszák, Marianne. 2013. I Kiss Your Hands Many Times – Hearts, Souls and Wars in Hungary. New York: Spiegel & Grau, Random House. 345 pp; and Griesz, Katherine. 2012. From the Danube to the Hudson. Seattle, WA: CreateSpace Independent Publishing. 482 pp.
Evi Blaikie
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21-27
Ironic Narrative Agency as a Method of Coping with Trauma in the Diary-Memoir of Margit K., a Female Holocaust Survivor
Gergely Kunt
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28-40
Fragments of a Hungarian Past in the Literature of 1.5 and Second-Generation Austro-Hungarian Immigrants in Israel
Ilana Rosen
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41-53
Hungarian Women’s Holocaust Life Writing in the Context of the Nation’s Divided Social Memory, 1944-2014
Louise O. Vasvári
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54-81

Seventy Years On, 1944-2014: Book Reviews

Kovács, Mária M.2012: "Törvénytől sújtva – a numerus clausus Magyarországon, 1920-1945" (Down by the Law - the Numerus Clausus in Hungary, 1920-1945)
Tamás Kovács
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82-84
Schwartz, Yigal. 2014. "Makhela hungarit" (A Hungarian Chorus)
Ilana Rosen
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85-88
Bánó, András. 2013. "Észbontó élet: Kövesdy Pál regényes története. A ’30-as évek megpróbáltatásaitól kezdve az ukrajnai szörnyűségeken át a New York-i galériáig" (A Ravishing Life – the Novelized History of Pál Kövesdy from the 1930s Tribulations)
Gábor Takács
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89-92

General Articles

Problems of a Declining Hungarian Birth Rate: A Historical Perspective
Ildikó Szántó
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93-109
Politics of Memory in Andrea Tompa’s Novel "Fejtől s lábtól" [‘Head to Feet’]
Zsófia Kata Vincze
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110-126
Death of a Nation? Debating the Great Transatlantic Emigration from Hungary, 1900-1914
István Kornél Vida
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127-142

Thematic Cluster: Space, Place, and the Making of Modern Hungary [Part I] Guest editors: S. Jobbitt and R. Győri

Introduction: Questions of Space and Place in Scholarship on Modern Hungary
Steven Jobbitt, Róbert Győri
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143-158
Educating Apostles of the Homeland: Tourism and "Honismeret" in Interwar Hungary
Andrew Behrendt
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159-176
Symbolic Geographies and the Politics of Hungarian Identity in the ‘Populist-Urbanist Debate,’ 1925-44
Richard S. Esbenshade
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177-197
East and West in Modern Hungarian Politics
Katalin Rac
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198-213
Human Geography, Cartography, and Statistics: A Toolkit for Geopolitical Goals in Hungary until World War II
Ferenc Gyuris
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214-241
The Contested Post-Socialist Rehabilitation of the Past: Dual Narratives in the Republishing of Tibor Mendöl’s "Introduction to Geography"
Zoltán Gyimesi
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242-273
Research Note: Political Geography and the Production of Hungarian “Pocket Atlases,” 1913-1919
Zoltán Hajdú
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274-292

Cluster Book Reviews

Fischer, Wladimir, Waltraud Heindl, Alexandra Millner, Wolfgang Müller-Funk, eds. 2010. Grenzen und Räume in Österreich-Ungarn 1867–1918. (Borders and Spaces in Austria-Hungary 1867-1918)
Katalin Fenyves
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293-295
Glant, Tibor. 2013. "Amerika, a csodák és csalódások földje." (America, the Land of Wonders and Disappointments.)
Susan Glanz
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296-299
Molnár, Virág. 2013. "Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe"
László Munteán
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300-310

Thematic Cluster: Teaching and Translating Hungarian Language, Literature and Culture [Part II]

Nationalism and Hungarian Education Policy: Are the Literary Works of Cécile Tormay, József Nyirő, and Albert Wass Appropriate for the Hungarian School Curriculum?
Ágnes Huszár
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303-319
Hungarian Is No "Idioma Incomparabile": The Hungarian Language Reform in European Comparison
Johanna Laakso
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320-336
A Multilingual Monologue: Alexander Lenard’s Self-Translated Autobiography in Three Languages
Helga Lénárt-Cheng
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337-349
The Role of Cultural Competence in the Teaching of Hungarian as a Foreign Language and in Cultural Diplomacy
Erika Sólyom
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350-357
Semantic Features of Hungarian Neologisms With the Prefix Be: Analysis of Some Frequently Used Verbs (e.g., bevállal)
Réka Sólyom
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358-373

Bibliography

Selected English-Language Bibliography of Interest for Hungarian Cultural Studies: 2013-2014
Louise O. Vasvári
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374-383

Reviews

Gere, Zsolt. 2013. Vörösmarty Mihály Epikus Korszakának Irodalom és Recepciótörténeti Kontextusai (The Writing and Reception Contexts of Mihály Vörösmarty 's Epic Writing) Ph.D Dissertation. Szeged: Szeged University. 275 pp. Illus. (http://doktori.bibl.u-szeged.hu/1781/1/Gere%20Zsolt%20- %20PhD-dolgozat.pdf) [Szebb idők - Vörösmarty epikus korszakának rétegei; Budapest: Argumentum Kiadó, 2013]
Enikő M. Basa
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384-387
Ferdinandy, György. 2013. Mélyebbre - elbeszélések, jegyzetek (Dig Deeper – Short Stories and Notes). Budapest: Magyar Napló. 296 pp.
Mario Fenyő
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388-390
Gecser, Ottó, József Laszlovszky, Balázs Nagy, Marcell Sebők, Katalin Szende, eds. 2011. Promoting the Saints – Cults and their Contexts from Late Antiquity until the Early Modern Period – Essays in Honor of Gábor Klaniczay for his 60th Birthday. Budapest: Central European University Press. 325 pp. Illus.
Kathleen V. Kish
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391-394
Gordon, Agáta. 2011. Magdolna lányai: Az Úrnő könyve (The Womenfolk of the Magdolna Quarter: The Lady’s Book). Budapest: Centrifuga eKiadó. 89 pp.
Angéla Kóczé
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395-396
Blomqvist, Anders E. B., Constantin Iordachi, Balázs Trencsényi (eds.) 2013. Hungary and Romania Beyond National Narratives - Comparisons and Entanglements in Nationalisms Across the Globe Vol. 10. Bern: Peter Lang. viii, 847 pp.
Andrew Ludányi
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397-399
Nopcsa, Baron Franz. 2014. Traveler, Scholar, Politician, Adventurer – A Transylvanian Baron at the Birth of Albanian Independence (ed. and trans. from German Robert Elsie). Budapest: Central European University Press. 227 pp.
David Mandler
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400-404
Berglund, Bruce R. and Brian Porter-Szűcs, eds. 2013. Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press. 386 pp.
Dorottya Nagy
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405-408
Vester, Shari. 2012. Degrees of Courage. Minneapolis, MN: Mill City Press. 574 pp.
Klára Papp
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409-411
Hargitai, Peter. 2013. Who Let the Bats Out? Twisted Tales from Transylvania. Bloomington: iUniverse. 170 pp., illus. Dianne Marlene Hargitai
Mártha Pereszlényi-Pintér
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412-415
Hargitai, Peter. 2014. Barbarian Fantasy. Gulfport, FL: ipubs.
Paul Sohar
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416-417
Kirkham, Pat, ed. 2013. Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 255 pp. Illus.
Judith Szapor
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418-421
Kelemen, János. 2013. The Rationalism of Georg Lukács. Basingstoke: Macmillan, Palgrave Pivot. 144 pp.
Mihály Szilágyi-Gál
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422-425
Portuges, Catherine and Peter Hames, eds. 2013. Cinemas in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 279 pp.
Lilla Tőke
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426-428