The Eighth Tribe, 1981 (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1981-07-01 / 7. szám
GYÁR, or Hungarian. Therefore, the official language of the new country became the same: the Hungarian language. It became the language of the schools maintained first by the priests, and later taken over by the state, and from the 15th century on, when the first “Collegium of Higher Education” was established in Transylvania’s cultural center, the city of Kolozsvár, it was the language of all the colleges and universities throughout the conutry. Shortly before World War I. there were 1896 grade schools, 26 middle and high schools, and three college-level educational institutions in Transylvania, educating Hungarians in the Hungarian language. When the Rumanian immigrants — political refugees and migrant workers — began to move into the country with the permission of the Hungarian government, they had the same right to make their own decision whether to take advantage of the country’s educational institutions or not, as the immigrants entering America had. Those Rumanians, who settled near established educational institutions, did send their children into the schools, and their descendants soon assimilated, and melted into the Hungarian-speaking population, as can easily be recognized by the presence of Rumanian names in Hungarian history. Those, however, who settled with their sheep herds on the uninhabited mountain pastures, did not have the opportunity to assimilate, and their descendants later formed the “Transylvanian Rumanian nation”, giving the Rumanian Kingdom across the mountains an excuse after World War I to occupy militarily and then to annex politically the entire Transylvania. From then on, the Calvary of the native Hungarian population began. Together with the already established and statemaintained Rumanian schools, the Royal Rumanian government took over the Hungarian schools, too, rapidly diminishing their numbers, but still allowing some to operate under government control in' the Hungarian populated areas. Church-maintained schools, however, were allowed to function, with certain subjects taught in the Rumanian' language, but the rest in Hungarian. After World War II, and especially after Mr. Ceausescu took control of the Rumanian Communist Party, the complete abolishment of the Hungarian language education began with the “nationalization” of the Universities and all Church-maintained educational institutions. This went parallel with the confiscation and annihilation of all Hungarian libraries, archives, and museums. It turned into an allout war against the Transylvanian' Hungarian culture itself, which for long centuries had been the established and world wide recognized culture of the entire Carpathian Basin. Should we search for a parallel in order to make born Americans understand the situation better, we would have to assume the fictitious possibility that one day Cuba might take over Florida, or Mexico occupies California, and the English-language American culture would be outlawed in' those parts of our country from one day to the next. All schools, down to Kindergarten,, would be forced to use the Spanish language only, whether the children attending those schools were from native Anglo-American parentage or not. The use of the English language would be strictly forbidden on the school-grounds as well as all public places, business and industrial establishments. That’s exactly what is happening today in Transylvania. Educators or parents who voice the slightest protest, are being arrested, tortured, beaten to death. Those in the Free World who are trying to focus public attention on the plight of the three million Hungarians in Transylvania, are being threatened with assasination. A nation is being eradicated from the face of the Earth by the use of the most sophisticated and cruel methods of physical and psychological terror, but expertly camouflaged by the cunning propaganda machinery of the National Socialist (NAZI) Republic of Rumania! LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT TRANSYLVANIA! Read the books released by the Danubian Research Center Transylvania and the Hungarian-Rumanian Problem, a symposium, 330 pp. maps, statistics, bibliography, cloth ..........................................................$18.00 Haraszti, Andrew: The Ethnic History of Transylvania .......................................................$10.00 Haraszti: Origin of the Rumanians............................$ 5.00 Nánay, Julia: Transylvania, the Hungarian Minority in Rumania...............................................$ 5.00 Zathureczky: Transylvania, Citadel of the West ........$ 4.00 THE DANUBIAN PRESS Rt. 1, Box 59 Astor, Florida 32002 The Transylvania Quarterly is a supplement to the Eighth Tribe bi-lingual monthly magazine. Subscription is $10.00 per year — $12.00 outside U.S.A. payable in U.S. funds. Eighth Tribe, P.0. Box 637, Ligonier, Pa. 15658. II THE TRANSYLVANIAN QUARTERLY
