Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1975 (3. évfolyam, 6-8. szám)

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for ethnic materials. The collection now contains over20,000 volumes of books, 2,000 reels of microfilm, nearly 2,000 feet of manuscripts, and 130 newspapers pertaining to 22 different ethnic groups of Eastern Europe. The Hungarian collection consists of 300 books, 26 serial titles and 7 manuscript collections.

It is obvious that the American Hungarian Foundation and the Immigration History Research Center are seeking similar depository material. It is important to preserve the rapidly disappearing material. Persons and organizations possessing old records should be persuaded to deposit them in one or the other collection rather than allowing them to deteriorate or be discarded. Write either to August J. Molnár, Exec. Director of the AHF, 177 Somerset Street, P.O. Box 1084, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, or to Joseph Széplaki, Consultant for Hungarian-American Collections, IHRC, Wilson Library, U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. □

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AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION AWARDS

Awards presented. The AHF held its 14th annual George Washington award presentation in New York. Dr. A.L. Gabriel, Director, Mediaeval Institute, atthe U. of Notre Dame, and Chairman of the Council of Consultants, HRC; and Dr. Marina von Neumann Whitman, Distinguished Public Service Professor of Economics at the U. of Pittsburgh and former member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, joined the ranks of distinguished scholars, scientists, and philanthropists who received the award in the past. The Theodore von Karman award medallions and citations for philanthropy were presented to Elmer H. Bobst, Mrs. Elisabeth Kasser, Mrs. Clara E.B. Kellner and Mrs. Eva Radnay. At the second annual Abraham Lincoln award dinner in Washington, D.C., Dr. Zoltán Bay, distinguished physicist of the U.S. Bureau of Standards, former Senator Frank J. Lausche, and Mrs. Jouett Shouse were honored.

the editor, Judith Magyar, 257 Chestnut Ave., Bogota, NJ 07603. The American Hungarian Foundation through its Hungarian Heritage Center is cooperating in the publication of this quarterly. □

BOOKS (Continued)

HUNGARIANS IN AMERICA. Babette F. Inglehart (Chicago State U.) and Anthony R. Mangione (Brooklyn Coll.) compiled an annotated selective literary bibliography on the American experience of European ethnic groups under the title THE IMAGE OF PLURALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, published by the Institute on Pluralism and Group Identity of the American Jewish Committee (165 East 56th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022) in 1974. 73 pages, $1.50 mimeo. The Hungarian-American literature covers two pages, as reproduced below:

FICTION AND POETRY. Anthony, Joseph. Golden Village. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merill, 1924. Account of a group of Hungarian farmers who emigrate to America; specifically the story of A'rpa'd Römer and his grandson, Stephen. Both yearn for the Golden Village, an American town said to have been founded years before by Hungarians from their hometown; they find only a heterogeneous community, bereft of its native Hungarian ways, absorbed in struggles of Americanization.

Bell, Thomas. Out of This Furnace. Boston: Little, Brown, 1941. An account of Hungarian-Americans through five decades (1881-1930). Their association with the Homestead, Pennsylvania, steel industry and the CIO is the backdrop for conflict between George Karchas and his grandson. Derleth, August. Restless is the River. Sauk City, Wise.; Arkham, 1972. Originally published in 1939. Story of Count Brogmar, a Hungarian exile, who settles in the Middle West and raises grapes for wine. His own exuberant nature carries him through life; but his wife never forgets that she was once a princess accustomed to gentle ways of living. Last in the series of three novels on the saga of Sac Prairie.

Könnyig Leslie. Collected Poems. St. Louis: American- Hungarian Review, 1968. Anthology of poems about the Hungarian-American experience. Poems include: “A Prayer

for America,” “St. Frances Cabrini,” “Kossuth on St. Louis,” and “A Mother’s Mourning.”

Nyerges, Anton. "The Immigrants” (poem) in Modern Poetry Studies (1970), 1, No. 5, p. 237.

Tamazi, A^on. Abel in America. Budapest: Corvina Press, 1966. A novel about Gaspar Broadway, an Americanized Hungarian, and his New York City adventures. BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY, AND CRITICISM. Barrett, James Wyman. Joseph Pulitzer and his World. New York: Vanguard Press, 1941. Biography of the distinguished Hungarian- American journalist and newspaper magnate, covering his Civil War experiences, his journalistic beginnings in St. Louis, the public service crusades of his New York World newspapers, and his tragic illness.

Könnyű, Leslie. Eagles of Two Continents. St. Louis: American-Hungarian Review, 1963. Story of Hungarian participants in the Missouri Campaign of the American Civil War.

Könnyű, Leslie. History of American-Hungarian Literature.

St. Louis: American-Hungarian Review, 1962. Review of American-Hungarian authors of the last 100 years and selections from their writings. Authors who wrote or are writing in Hungarian and English are included. Most of the material written about the Hungarian-American experiences was written in Hungarian and remains to be translated. Könnyű, Leslie. Hungarians in the United States: An Immigrant Study. St. Louis: American-Hungarian Review, 1967. Useful guide to the successive waves of emigration from Hungary. Includes short unannotated bibliography of American-Hungarian authors.

Madden, Henry M. Xantus; Hungarian Naturalist in the Pioneer West. Palo Alto, Calif.: Books of the West, 1949. Biography of John Xantus, Hungarian explorer, cartographer, and naturalist who, in 1856, surveyed Kansas for the American government and later charted the course of the Arkansas River.

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