Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1976 (4. évfolyam, 9-12. szám)
1976 / 11. szám
sáHUNGARIAN ^§11 STUDIES NEWSLETTER No. 11 Autumn 1976 Published three times a year: Winter, Spring and Autumn Editor: Dr. Bela C. Maday . Journal Review Editor: Dr. Enikő' M. Basa Corresponding Editor: Dr. Lorant Czigany (London) Communications concerning content should be sent to the: EDITOR, HSN 4528 - 49th STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20016 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, N.J. 08903 BOOKS (Continued) nonsense. It is true that in places such as Hungary and Spain members of the former nobility still possessed, on occasion, very large estates; but even there the present belonged to industry, to new managerial groups, and to political meritocracies. And even in those European nations where commerce, industry, finance, and certain professions were overpopulated by Jews. . ., it was no longer reasonable to speak. . .of a largely Jewish bourgeoisie. For the era of the national middle classes had by then arrived, the feudal, preindustrial era, the age of aristocracies having gone, and the era of the proletariat still a chimera, far away.” Lukacs is author of A History of the Cold War, Historical Consciousness, and The Passing of the Modern Age. Alföldi, László M. THE ARMIES OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND GERMANY, 1740-1914. U S. Army Military History Research Collection, Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013.277 pages, n.p., paper. (Special Bibliography Series No. 12, Vol. I.) This is the first in a series of bibliographies on European military history. It presents English, French, German, Hungarian, and Russian language sources on file at the Collection, which has some 15,000 books, maps, and photographs for this period of Austro-Hungarian and German history. The volume is divided into chapters on (1) Reference works and general histories; (2) Austria-Hungary; (3) Germany; and supplemented by an author index. Volume II will cover the period between 1914 and 1945. The staff of the Collection welcomes visits by scholars and interested persons. Most of the items listed in the bibliography are available through interlibrary loan. The author is a resident Research Historian at the Collection. Braham, Randolph L. ed. HUNGARIAN JEWISH STUDIES. World Federation of Hungarian Jews, 136 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016, 1966. 346 pages. $10.00 cloth. This is the first volume in a series on the various aspects of Hungarian Jewish history. The first essay by Ernő Marton deals with the early history of Hungarian Jewry; the second by Ernő László describes settlement and demograhy from 1735 to 1910; the third by Nathaniel Katzburg concerns the history between 1910 and 1944; the fourth by Bela Vago the destruction of the Jews in Transylvania; the fifth by the editor on the destruction of Jews in Carpatho-Ruthenia; the sixth by Ilona Benoschofshy restates the position of Hungarian Jewry after World War II; the seventh by Eugene Lévai describes research facilities in Hungary concerning the Catastrophe Period; and the final essay by Moshe Carmilly- Weinberger is on Hebrew poetry in Hungary. Brief biographical sketches of the authors conclude the book. The volume aims to preserve the heritage of the once flourishing Hungarian Jewish community which was destroyed by the invading German troops beginning with March 19,1944. Up to that date, Hungarian Jewry as a whole, though discriminated against in the educational, economic, and social spheres, fared relatively well, as did the thousands of refugees who came to Hungary from Nazi-occupied Europe. Dr. Braham is Prof, of Political Science at The City College of the City U. of New York. Braham, Rudolph L. ed. HUNGARIAN JEWISH STUDIES, Vol. 2. World Federation of Hungarian Jews, 136 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016, 1969. 300 pages. $10.00 cloth. This is the second volume in the series (see review of the first volume above), which includes seven essays on Hungarian Jewish past. The first is by Nathaniel Katzburg, on the fateful Jewish Congress of 1868-69 that split Hungarian Jewry into three communal factions: Orthodox, Neolog (Conservative or Reform), and Status-Quo. The next essay is by István végházi on the role of Jewry in the economic life of Hungary; the third by Erzsébet Balia describes the contribution of Jewish writers, scientists, artists; Ernő László gives a demographic overview between 1918 and 1945; in the fifth essay Bela Vágó writes about Germany and the Jewish policy of the Ka'llay Government; the sixth is by Henry Feingold on the Roosevelt Administration and the efforts to save the Jews of Hungary; and the final essay by Eugene Lévai is on the war crimes trials relating to Hungary. Frederic Gorog in the foreword says that “Greater Hungary of the pre-World War I period had a Jewish population of close to one million. The havoc wrought by Nazism reduced this figure to a mere fraction which is now scattered throughout the world. This once great Jewish community made a lasting contribution to the enrichment of mankind in practically all the fields of the arts and sciences.” The purpose of the series is not only to preserve the Hungarian Jewish heritage but to make it available to the Englishspeaking world to which it had been unavailable because of linguistic reasons. Burghardt, Andrew F. ed. DEVELOPMENT REGIONS IN THE SOVIET UNION, EASTERN EUROPE, AND CANADA. Praeger Publishers, 111 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY 10003, 1975. 194 pages, maps, charts, tables. $15.00 cloth. The essence of state-socialism is large-scale planning, which is usually accompanied by some sort of regionalization. The Interdepartmental Committee on Communist and 2 NO. 11. 1976. HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
