Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1973 (1. évfolyam, 1-2. szám)

1973 / 2. szám

requirements of not only specialists but also the general reading public interested in the topic.

Following the Foreword wirtten by the editors, the volume has the following chapters: The Origins of Hungarian by Péter Hajdú: Hungarian Historical Phonology by Béla Kálmán; The Grammatical System of Hungarian by Sándor Király; The Lexical Stock of Hungarian by LÓránd Bénkö; Hungarian Proper Names by LÓránd Benko; Standard Hungarian by László Deme; Hungarian Dialects by Samu Imre; Early Hungarian Texts by Samu Imre; An Outline of the History of Hungarian Linguistics by István Szatmári. This is followed by The Most Important Bibliographical Items of Hungarian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics Published in Hungary; and 19 facsimilies of old Hungarian texts.

Birkos, Alexander S. and Lewis A. Tambs. ACADEMIC WRITER S GUIDE TO PERIODICALS, VOL. II., EAST EUROPEAN AND SLAVIC STUDIES. Kent, OH: Kent State U. Press, 1973. 572 pages. $10.00 cloth; $7.50 paper.

This volume is part of a series of guides to scholarly periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Each volume is devoted to a geographical area. 1.Latin America, 2.East Europe, 3.Africa and Black-America, 4.Middle East, 5.Asia, 6.West Europe and Scandinavia, 7.U.S. and Canada.

Compiled with the specific needs of the academic writer in mind, the data presented include the general scope of editorial coverage and areas of special interest, style and length of articles, rates of payment, and notes on special features. Included are relevant periodicalsthat carry at least a portion of their material in the English language, and hence the series is international in scope.

The East European and Slavic studies volume, which includes nearly 500 titles, lists the following entries of Hungarian origin: Acta Ethnographica; Acta Historica; Acta Linguistica; Acta Oeconomica; American Hungarian Review; The New Hungarian Quarterly; and Studies for a New Central Europe. The editors note that data from the following journals has not been received: Acfa Antique; Acta Litteraria; and the Hungarian Review. Here is a sample entry:

Acta Ethnographica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae Editor: Gyula Ortutay Managing Editor: Tibor Bodrogi

Editorial address: Ethnographical Inst. Országház u. 30. Budapest 1, Hungary

Sponsor: Hungarian Academy of Sciences Frequency: SA. Founded: 1950. Subscription rate: $16 Editorial interest:

Chronological-unrestricted Georgraphical-worldwide Topical-ethnology, folklore Special scope-Hungarian national ethnography Editorial policies:

Query prior to submission of ms. Style manual: none prescribed.

Preferred tenth of ms.: 30-60 typed pages,each of 25 lines; no serialization. Author payment: cash payment to Hungarian authors only, 100 article reprints. End notes. Articles published in English, French, German or Russian.

Notes: Articles are cited in Demos, Schwizerische Jahrbuch für Volkskunde. Book reviews are assigned. Reports on queries and submissions in 3 to 4 weeks.

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Allen,Richard Edwin, (Columbia U. 1972.) “Oscar Jaszi and Radicalism in Hungary, 1900-1919.” 377 pages. Microfilm and xerox order no. 73-6745.

In 1900 several young Hungarian university graduates, influenced by the spreading vogue of positivist social science, founded in Budapest a review, Huszadik Szazad (Twentieth Century), to cultivate the new science of sociology.

Initially the review was non-political. Soon, however, an activist tendency emerged under Oscar Jaszi’s leadership, signalized by a rapid growth of interest in socialism. In 1904 Jaszi produced a program for a new party, drawing on the ideas of the German revisionist Social-Democrat, Eduard Bernstein. Besides advocating broader civil liberties-especially for the non-Magyar minorities living in Hungary-Jászi sought to achieve reforms, through universal suffrage, by grouping broad masses of workers, peasants, intelligentsia, the middle class, and minority peoples in a socialist party less exclusively working class-oriented than the existing Hungarian Social-Democratic Party.

Jaszi spent the first half of 1905 in Paris; the influence of his friend, the syndicalist theoretician Ervin Szabó, convinced him that the party he had envisaged could only be a bourgeois-radical party. Returning home, Jaszi contended himself with working for universal suffrage during the Hungarian political crisis of 1905.

With the accession to power of a nationalist and clerical government, opportunities for men of Jaszi’s stamp dwindled. The young sociologist spent four years in intensive research on Hungary’s social profile, especially on the agrarian problem. Simultaneously the ideas spread via Hungarian Freemasonry, through a network of free schools and sociological societies, and through the newspaper, Világ (World).

Jászi now concentrated on the problem of the national minority groups inhabiting the peripheries of the country. He called for schools, courts, and local administration in the local languages of the nationalities, arguing that such concessions would sooner induce them to voluntarily assimilate to the Magyar culture, than existing repressive practices. Simultaneously, he joined in a renewed drive for universal suffrage which, however, met a decisive setback in 1912 from a determined conservative government.

The Burgeois Radical Party was founded, under Jászi’s presidency, on the eve of World War I. When hostilities began, Jaszi withdrew into silence. Later, he advocated briefly the Mitteleuropa concept of Friedrich Naumann, hoping that a federation of Central European peoples would prevent further conflicts; but he soon abandoned it to joint Count Michael Károlyi, a leader of the Independence Party, advocating peace, an Entente orientation, democratization of public life, and reconciliation with the nationalities. The

DISSERTATIONS*

(*) Most of the abstracts are based on those published in Dissertation Abstracts International. Microfilm and xerox copies of the original full dissertations may be obtained from Xerox University Microfilm, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106, when not indicated otherwise. When ordering, use order number given after each entry.

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