Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1976 (4. évfolyam, 9-12. szám)
1976 / 12. szám
HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION 177 Somerset Street P.O. Box 1084, New Brunswick, N.J, 08903 Address Correction Requested Return Postage Guaranteed Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No 257 RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Nándor F. Dreisziger (Royal Military College of Canada) is working on a study of Hungarian immigration to Canada commissioned by the Department of the Secretary of State. □ Joseph Held (Rutgers U.) is preparing a book on Hungarian society in the early 15th century. □ Albert Tezla (U. of Minnesota) has a book in progress on the development of Hungarian literature from 1772 to 1849, and an anthology of short works by Hungarian authors emerging since 1945. He is co-editor, with József Kova'cs, HAS, of a selection of documents on the Hungarian emigration to the U.S. □ Thomas Spira (U. of Prince Edward Island) is working on a series of monographs dealing with the Swabian problem 1918-36 and German-Hungarian relations. The first monograph will be published in the East European Monographs series of Columbia U. in May or June 1977. □ Steven Bela Vardy (Duquesne U). is continuing his earlier work on Hungarian historiography with a study that covers the trends from humanism to positivism. □ György Bisztray (Chicago U.) is working on an article examining George Lukács’s view of Scandinanvian literature. William L. Biro is engaged in a study of Hungarian settlements in the Pittsburgh and Cleveland areas. □ Steven C. Scheer (St. Meinrad Sem.) has completed a monograph on Kálmán Mikszáth for the Twayne World Authors Series. It has been accepted for publication, and will appear within the year. □ Peter and Enikő M. Basa, under the sponsorship of the American Hungarian Educators’ Association, are working on a computerized bibliography that ultimately aims to include all Hungarian-related books and periodicals available in the libraries of the U.S. and Canada. Publications in both Hungarian and non-Hungarian will be included. Data collection is by TSO interactive program,Wylbur and IBM cards.Data Retrieval System is by data elements in Batch, which will respond overnight, or on-line retrieval with response in a few seconds. The basic advantage of the system will be its flexibility,allowing for constant updating, and its accessibility by computer terminals that will use WATTS lines to the main computer.ln addition to title and author,information will be available on main and secondary subjects, general areas of concern, location and availability of the book and so on. □ Robert S. Hosh, a doctoral candidate at Columbia U. was selected to become Research Fellow at the Hungarian Research Center in New Brunswick, N.J. for the academic year 1976-77. During his term he is cataloging the Edmund Vasvary Collection and preparing a critical evaluation of it in the form of a bibliographical essay to facilitate its use by researchers. Hosh wrote his Master's thesis on “Arpádhon, Louisiana: An Example of Hungarian Immigrant Acculturation." His fellowship is supported by a Rockefeller Foundation grant awarded to the American Hungarian Foundation for research in the area of Hungarian immigration history with special focus on the Vasvary Collection. □ EDITOR’S CORNER As promised before, we are now providing an opportunity for the reader to reverse the one-sided communication to which she or he has been exposed throughout the existence of the HSN, and “talk back.” Please, remove the Letter to the Editor from the center of this issue, and honor us with your comments on the policy, content, and form of the HSN, so that we may improve our communication within the perimeters of ourcapabilities. Even if you have no time to reply at length or if you have no specific thoughts to share, please, return the letter with replies to questions 1,2,7, and 8. It can be done in five minutes, and it would help us to know who and where our readers are - what the profile of our readership is. We thank you in advance for your cooperation, and we will refer to your comments in future issues. Incidentally, I promise not to ask you for another letter for the duration of the next four years. After ten faultless issues (except for a few typographical errors) issue 11 proved that we, too, are human. The announcement on ACLS's East European Dissertation Prize mentioned only anthropology as a field of competition. In fact, the prize is offered in art history, musicology, and sociology, as well as in anthropology. We also erred in writing about Thomas Spira’s research project and are correcting it in the Research in Progress column of this issue. My humble apologies to ACLS and to Dr. Spira. Your editor is still overwhelmed with work and hence he has to resort regretfully to thanking friends through these lines. Many thanks for your support Kathleen Behr, Carol Erting, Elek Horvath, Robert F. Hull, Walter Lukan, Katherina Phillips, James R. Sweeney, Gordon Turner, and Julianna Ujváry. 8 The Editor NO. 12, 1976-77 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
