Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1975 (3. évfolyam, 6-8. szám)
1975 / 7. szám
ARTICLES AND PAPERS THE REVIEW, more precisely THE CANADIAN-AMERICAN REVIEW OF HUNGARIAN STUDIES is a new semi-annual journal concerned with Hungarian studies. We welcome the daring enterprise of Hungarian oriented scholars who have been seeking a forum of their own, and who concentrated their efforts in the formation of the Hungarian Readers’ Service, inspired by Dr. Ferenc Harcsar and other activists. Editor of the Review is Nándor Dreisziger, Assist. Prof., Department of History, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Canada K7L 2W3. Business Manager is Ferenc Harcsar, 908-1356 Meadowlands Drive East, Ottawa, Canada K2E6K6. Corresponding editors are Géza Kuun, Alfonz Lengyel, Thomas Spira, and Charles Wojatsek. The first issue (48 pages in size) contains four articles and four book reviews. Watson Kirkconnell, President Emeritus of Acadia U., in “A Canadian Meets the Magyars,” gives account of his life-long association with Hungarian scholars, writers, and poets, as well as of his extensive translations from Hungarian into English beginning with poems published in his European Elegis (Graphic Press, 1928) to the 1180 typed pages of the Hungarian Helicon still awaiting publication by the U. of Toronto Press. Peter Pastor, Assist. Prof, of History, Montclair State Coll., New Jersey, writes on the “Franco- Rumanian Intervention in Russia and the Vix Ultimatum: Background to Hungary’s Loss of Transylvania.” He discusses the French-inspired memorandum which played a fatal role in the collapse of the Karolyi regime and in the future of Transylvania. Agnes Huszár Vardy, Assist. Prof, in the Humanities Dept, at Robert Morris College, Pennsylvania, writes on “Nikolaus Lenau and Germanic Literary Interest in Hungary During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century." This article is a part of her longer monograph reviewed in the HSN no. 6. Alfonz Lengyel, Director of Northern Kentucky State College’s Classical Art History and Archaeology Program reviews three “Recent Publications in Hungarian Art History, “one published in English and two in Hungarian, as follows: Boskovits,M.,M.Mojzer, and A. Mocsi. “Christian Art in Hungary, Collections from the Esztergom Christian Museum.” Budapest: HAS, 1965; Balogh, J. “A muve'szet Mátyás Király udvarában” (Art at the Court of King Mathias). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1966; and Gerevich, L. “A Budai Var feltárása” (The Excavation of the Royal Palace in Buda). Budapest: Akade'miai Kiadó, 1966. Other books reviewed are: Obolensky, D. “The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe, 500-1453.” New York: Praeger, 1971, reviewed by C.A. Contreras; Olvedi, I. “A Budai Var es a debreceni csata” (Fort of Buda and the Battle of Debrecen). Budapest: Zrinyi, 1970, reviewed by P. Gosztonyi; von Karman, T. with Lee Edson, “The Wind and Beyond: Theodore Karmán, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Space.” Boston: Little Brown, 1967, reviewed by G. Bethlendy; and Csonka, E. “Habsburg Otto' - egy különös sors története” (Otto Habsburg: the Story of an Extraordinary Life), Munich: Uj Europa, 1972, reviewed by P. Gosztonyi. □ Bak, M. Janos presented a paper “The Hungarian Peasant War of 1514: Ideology and Structure," at the Peasant Seminar of the Centre of International and Area Studies, U, of London. “In March 1514 Cardinal Thomas Bakócz, archbishop of Esztergom returned from Rome where he had lavishly spent more than a year in an unsuccessful bid for the Papacy. As a kind of consolation prize, he obtained from the new Pope (Leo X, Giovanni Medici) a bull calling for a crusade against the Turks and naming him as papal legate for all of Eastern Europe. This crusade ended as the greatest peasant uprising in the history of medieval Hungary and may have been a crucial event in the centuries long enslavement of peasants as well as in the foundation of a highly conservative ‘noble republic,’” writes Bak. He then outlines the events and the character of the uprising in the socio-economic context of the 16th century. The crusading idea, the leadership and participation of the uprising receive treatment. In assessing the event Bak tries to ask three questions: What was “peasant patriotism" in 1514? Was the uprising "progressive” or “utopian” in character? What was the image of Dózsa then and what is it now? □ Czigány, Lorant, “Janos Vitéz: The ‘People’s Epic’,” Mosaic VI (Summer 1973) 69-87. EDITOR’S CORNER We are fortunate that two persons of eminent scholarly background and great enthusiasm for our modest efforts have decided to make their contributions regular and continuous beginning with this issue. Dr. Enikó'M. Basa, Lecturer of Literature at The American U. in Washington, D.C., abstracts you have readily noticed in the Articles and Papers column of the last three issues, will assumefull responsibility for the review of periodicals and papers. Dr. Lóránt G. Czigany, who was lecturer in Hungarian at the U. of California, Berkeley; author of HUNGARICA: Catalogue of the Béla Iványi-Grunwald Collection (London: Szepsi Csombor Literary Circle, 1967); now writing a critical survey of Hungarian literature commissioned by ACLS; and whose constructive ideas and leads to relevant publications in England have been of great help to me, will become corresponding editor for Great Britain. There is little room in this small publication to share with you the many pleasant experiences I have as editor; however, let me relate only one incidence. An anthropologist from the U. of Massachusetts spent last summer doing field work in Romania. It was there that he learned about our periodical. The HSN is really getting around. The reaction to our last issue has been pleasing and intensive. Wouldn’t it be beneficial to have a 20-page newsletter each time, or at least a 16-page issue? I would even compromise for 12. It would be worth adding a few more hours to my editorial job. Do you know anyone who would help pay for the paper and printing? The Editor BOOKS (Continued from page 3) remaining, six were in economics, one in jurisprudence, and five were interdisciplinary in character. Of the 25 participating nations, Hungary ranked second after France in institutional participation. Some project titles could illuminate the range of interest: “Comparative forms of aid to developing countries,” “Automation and industrial workers,” “Time-budgets and industrialization,” “The cost of urban growth,” “The future of rural communities in industrialized societies,” “Images of a disarmed world,” “University graduates: their training and conception of life.” 4 NO. 7, 1975 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
