The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1985 (12. évfolyam, 1-11. szám)

1985-09-01 / 9. szám

FERENC F. SAJGÓ: THE HUNGARIAN LIFE-LINE ANDRE KERTÉSZ of Paris and New York “My boy, if you want to go to Paris, you’re right,” said Andre Kertesz’s mother in 1925. She gave her blessing to a legendary career in photography of her son. Active in the field for 73 years — half the history of photography itself — the Budapest bom Kertesz is an innovator not only in photographic art, but also a pioneer in photo reportage in European illustrated magazines — the type imitated in the 1930’s by Life, Look and Coronet Now 91, Kertesz, in a musical Hungarian accent still seasoned with French phrases, recalled his initial disappointment in the USA, where he emigrated in 1936, as he sought to continue his magazine career. A Life editor told him, “You’re talking too much with your pictures. We need only documents.” “What if I make a document that talks too?” Kertesz said, “I cannot touch the camera without expressing myself.” He found a place with House & Garden, shooting elegant interiors. He retired in 1962. At that point, he again became an “amateur”, which to him meant, “I do what I want.” In 1964, Museum of Modem Arts retrospective helped re-establish his reputation. It is the projection of his feelings that makes his images come alive. Mondrian ’s Glasses and Pipe, shot on a table in the artist’s stuio in 1926, captures the essence of Piet Mondrian’s art in these every day personal objects. A cloud floats above the Empire State Building, conveying a sense of solitude in the teeming city, in 1937’s famous Lost Cloud. Andre Kertesz recently held an exhibition in the Art Institute of Chicago, lis next exhibition will be at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Arts, from December 12 to February 23,1986. TANOS KISS, Musical Director Honored Janos Kiss of Bay Village, Ohio, music educator, conductor and music director of The West Surburban Philharmonic Orchestra, and composer whose works have been performed throughout the world as well as in this country, has received two awards “in recognition of his accomplishments in the field of music”. He was presented with the Bishop Ordass bronze memorial plaque and with a bust of Dr. Martin Luther, in the presence of the Executive Committee of the Hungarian Conference of the Lutheran Church in America: President, Dr. Gabor Brachna; Secretary, Rev. Emery S. Juhasz; and Treasurer, Rev. Bela Bernhardt at the banquet, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the dedication of the sanctuary of the West Side Hungarian Lutheran Church in Cleveland, Ohio. HUNGARIAN FESTIVAL IN FLORIDA A Hungarian Festival was sponsored by the Magyar Naplo’s (a Hungarian monthly newspaper based in Toronto, Canada) Florida office on July 22. Over 150 persons attended this event. The Hungarian population of the area is about 200 families. The event took place at the facilities of the Westchester Motel, 1745 Ridgewood Avenue, South Daytona. Those who attended enjoyed the tasty Hungarian cooking and baked goods. If any of our readers interested in reading this Hungarian language paper, write to: Magyar Napló, P.O. Box 771, Station A, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, or at the Westchester Motel’s address. Conferences and Meetings November 7-9, 1985 “THE OSCAR JASZI MEMORIAL CONFERENCE: Nationalism, Minorities and the Quest for Political Order in Eastern Europe,” hosted by Oberlin College and co-sponsored by the Hungarian Chair at Indiana University, the American Hungarian Educators Association and the Hungarian Com­munity of Friends, will be held on the campus of Oberlin College. The Con­ference will be devoted to an analysis of Oscar Jaszi’s intellectual legacy, particularly in relation to the problems of multi-ethnic states, past and present in Eastern Europe. For further information, write Andrew Ludanyi, Department of History & Political Science, Ohio Northern University, Ada Ohio 45810 or Harlan Wilson, Department of Government, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074. 60th ANNIVERSARY The Free Magyar Reformed Church of McKeesport, Pennsylvania will observe the Sixtieth Anniversary of the founda­tion of the Free Magyar Reformed Church in America; now known as the Hungarian Reformed Church in America; on September 22,1985, with an afternoon Worship Service, followed by an Anniver­sary Dinner. Hungarian Sermon will be given by Bishop Dezső Abraham; English Sermon by Rev. Imre Bertalan, president of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America. The Denomination started after the First World War, when most of the pastors of the Hungarian Reformed Churches, following the advice of the mother church in Hungary, favored join­ing an American Protestant Church. But a few congregations favored an Indepen­dent Hungarian Church. They had their first meeting at the Duquesne Church, Pa. on the First Sunday of February, 1922; on August 13 and 14, 1923, representatives from Duquesne, McKeesport, Perth Amboy, Trenton, Carteret, N.J., Detroit, Mich., Donora, Philadelphia and Scranton, PA held a Constitutional Meeting establishing the first “Egyház Megye” at Trenton, N.J. They met again on December 7, 1924 at Duquesne, and officially established the Független Magyar Reformatus Egyház/ Free Magyar Reformed Church in America. The Church presently has 31 Congregations in the United States and Canada, with 3 Egyház Megye/Classis. Page 7 KOSSUTH’S PROPHETIC WORDS From “St. Louis Globe-Democrat,” 10/8/1958. Lajos Kossuth said the following before the Congress of the United States on Jan. 7, 1852. “***A11 who now suffer from oppres­sion in the East, look with hope to the free institutions of this Western world.*** Russian diplomacy could never boast of a greater and more fatal victory, than it had right to boast, would it succeed to persuade the United States not to care about her — Russia — accomplishing her aim to become the ruling power in Europe, in Asia and on the Mediterranean Sea.” September, 1985

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