The Eighth Tribe, 1976 (3. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1976-03-01 / 3. szám
Page 8 THE EIGHTH TRIBE March, 1976 IMMIGRATION HISTORY RESEARCH CENTER HUNGARIAN AMERICAN COLLECTION OUR HERITAGE IN AMERICA Column editor: Joseph Széplaki We will reprint here articles, essays and poems as they appeared in the early American press regarding our heritage in America. We also welcome articles reflecting the history and accomplishments of Hungarians on the American j continent. Since 1964, the Immigration History Research Center of the University of Minnesota has been building a collection of source materials for the study of immigrant ethnic groups which came to the United States and Canada from Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe and the Middle East. The scope of the material covers both the immigration and the subsequent history of the ethnic groups in North America. At present the IHRC archival collections consist of some 25,000 volumes of published material (20,000 monographs, 1,700 periodical titles), the files of more than 250 ethnic newspapers (of which 135 titles are currently received regularly), 2,500 reels of microfilm, and approximately 1,800 linear feet (two million items) of manuscripts. The manuscript holdings include the records of typical ethnic institutions, such as fraternal societies, churches, relief organizations, and publishing companies. Other material derived from the ethnic groups themselves is also represented, including collections of personal papers from ethnic leaders, clergymen, journalists, labor leaders, writers, poets, and politicians. The growing mass of material related to the Hungarian people in America forms an important and integral part of the IHRC archives. At present the Hungarian American Collection consists of nearly 700 monographs, 115 periodical titles, files of 24 newspaper titles (five titles currently regularly received), and twelve manuscript collections (i.e., personal or organizational papers). The 700 volume monograph collection is particularly strong in the areas of history, religion (both Catholic and Protestant), literature, and material dealing with Hungarian refugees of World War II and the 1956 revolution. Among the works concerning Hungarian American history are such titles as: Géza Kende’s Magyarok Amerikában, (2 vols.), Cleveland, 1927; Jenő Ruzsa’s A Kanadai Magyarság Története, Toronto, 1940; Eugene Pivány’s Hungarians in the American Civil War, Cleveland, 1913; and Károly Feleky’s Magyarok Amerikában, n.d. (from “Szinházi Élet Albuma”). Religious histories include Sándor Kalassay’s Az Amerikai Magyar Reformátusok Története and histories and commemorative publications for more than one hundred Hungarian American churches of various denominations. In the field of Hungarian American literature the Archives contains most of the works of Erzsébet Kisjókai, György Kemény, László Könnyű (including his History of American Hungarian Literature), László Szabó, Albert Wass, and many others. This description contains a complete list of the IHRC’s Hungarian American newspaper and manuscript collections. The entire list of 115 periodical titles held by the Archives is not given here. A few of the larger and more complete runs are: Bérmunkás Naptár, 1944-52, 1954; Bethlen Naptár, 1943- present; Előre, 1917; Historias Kalendárium (Katolikus Magyarok Vasárnapja), 1946, 1951-1952, 1954- present; Kanadai Magyar Újság Naptára, 1950, 1955- 1968; Kárpát, 1957-1973 (nearly complete); Képes Világhíradó, 1959-1969; Magyar Találkozó Krónikája, 1961-1970, 1973-1974; Nők Világa, 1954-1970 (scattered issues); A Szív, 1961-1971 (nearly complete); and Testvériség (Fraternity), 1964-present (nearly complete). In addition to the manuscript collections described here as specifically Hungarian, much useful information is to he found in the Austrian Consular Reports Concerning Emigration, ca. 1847-1918 (32 reels of microfilm), and in the papers of such “multiethnic” organizations as the American Council for Nationalities Service, the International Institutes and the Assembly of Captive European Nations. MANUSCRIPTS Ablonczy, Pál. Napi Könyv (Diary). 1 reel microfilm. Association of Hungarian Students in North America, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Papers, 1956-1957, ca. 4 linear feet. The organizational records of a group formed by university student refugees from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The collection consists mainly of correspondence. Balogh, Dezső De A. Papers, 1938-1965, 2.5 linear feet. A collection of journals, pamphlets and newspaper clippings on world communism and Hungary. Balogh is on the editorial board of the periodical Képes Magyar Magazin, New York City. Baross Gábor Benefit Society, St. Paul, Minneosta. Papers, ca. 1892-1970, 1.5 linear feet. An American-Hungarian
