Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1978 (6. évfolyam, 16-18. szám)
1978 / 16. szám
sAHUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER No. 16 Spring 1978 Published three times a year: Winter, Spring and Autumn Editor: Dr. Bela C. Maday Journal Review Editor: Dr. Enikő M. Basa Corresponding Editor: Dr. Lora'nt Cziga'ny (London) Communications concerning content should be sent to the: EDITOR, HSN 4528 - 49th STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, DC 20016 Annual subscription in the United States: $3.00; abroad $4.00. Current single copy $1.00; back issues $1.50 each. Communications concerning subscriptions, advertising and circulation should be sent to: HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION 177 SOMERSET STREET P.O. BOX 1084 NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ 08903 EDITORS CORNER An extremely significant event is taking place at the U. of Toronto. The Canadian Hungarian community has successfully completed a national campaign collecting $300,000 toward the establishment of a chair in Hungarian studies at the U. of Toronto. The Canadian Government is to provide a matching $300,000, thereby assuring the creation of the first prestigious academic position in North America solely devoted to Hungarian-related studies. We congratulate the Canadian Hungarian community for its achievement, and hope that Americans of Hungarian background in the U.S. may follow suit. As we enter the sixth year of publication with an issue double in size, we regret to have to forego reporting on several worthy writings because of lack of space. They have been listed at the conclusion of the Articles and Papers column, and we hope to be able to return to them eventually. During the past six months or so I have received intensive support from scores of persons who sent me information, reprints, comments, etc. making this issue what it is. I am indebted to J.K. Apte, K. Bognár, B. Balassa, I. Boba, S. Eddie, G. Elek, J. Held, M. Hoppál, B. Király, L.J. Lekai, M. Levine, J. Rezler, J. Szentlvány, J. Széplaki, and J. Varsányi. The Editor BOOKS (Continued) legacy which hitherto was believed to have oriainated in Moravia where Methodius was allegedly a missionary bishop. Boba found that reference to the true location of Methodius’s see pointed to Pannónia Secunda, south of the Danube, toward the Morava River in present day Yogoslavia. According to the evidence he discovered, St. Methodius was resident Bishop of Morava (Sirmium or modern day Sremska Mitrovica) rather than Bishop of Moravia in present day Czechoslovakia. The discovery sheds light upon many aspects of medieval and church history. It has already initiated new inquiries and reinterpretation of important aspects of medieval history. Somewhat less spectacular but exciting nevertheless is Boba’s discovery of another error as described in Saint Andreas-Zeorard: A Pole or an Istrian? Ungarn Jahrbuch 7 (1976) 65-71. The prevailing opinion of historians in regard to the origin of St. Andreas-Zoerard, patron of the cathedral church and diocese of Nitra, was that he was a Pole. Boba found that such belief was based upon the interpretation of a rather late transcription of a source, in which Polonia was used in place of the original Poliensis, and suggests that Andreas-Zoerard came to Hungary from terra Poliensis/Poloniensis, that is, from the rural surroundings of the City of Pola, present day Pula on the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia. Dr. Boba is Prof, of History (Dept, of History, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195) and will be glad to send reprints of this article upon request. Braham, Randolph L. THE HUNGARIAN LABOR SERVICE SYSTEM 1939-1945. East European Quarterly. Distributed by Columbia U. Press. 562 West 113 Street, New York, NY 10025, 1977, 159 pages, tables, maps, illust. $11.00 cloth. During World War II Hungary maintained a military labor service system composed of men of military age classified as “unreliable” and thus deemed unfit to bear arms. These men were organized into units under the command of the Army, and were employed primarily in construction and fortification work. The labor service system was based on Law no. 2 of March 11, 1939 and later laws and edicts. In the beginning, the provisions were not necessarily discriminatory, but after the Soviet breakthrough at Voronezh, and especially after German occupation of Hungary they became increasingly punitive. The condition of the Jewish labor servicemen depended a great deal on the attitudes of their officers and guards, and consequently their treatment ranged from sadistic abuse to more decent. It is one of the ironies of history that after the German occupation, the Army which had been looked upon as a major source of suffering for the Jews during the previous four years, suddenly emerged as the saver of Jewish lives, since those serving in the labor service system were exempt from deportation and almost certain extermination in the infamous Nazi concentration camps. The author presents a well documented study, describing the suffering and heroism of the Jewish servicemen, and the behavior of their officers. The appendices include individual testimonies, organization of the system, glossary of military terms, abbreviations, and losses of Hungarian Jewry. The author is Prof, of Pol. Science at the City College of CUNY. Brown, Edward. A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF SOME TRAVELS IN HUNGÁRIA, SERVIA, BULGARIA, MACEDONIA, AUSTRIA, STYRIA, CARINTHIA, CARNIOLA, AND FRIULI. Printed by T.R. for Benj. Tooke, and are to be Sold at the Sign of the Ship in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1673. Republished from the original facsimile by von Karl Nehring, as Volume 2 in Series C of the Finno-Ugric Seminar at the U. of Munich, 8 Munich, Franz-2 NO. 16, 1978 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
