Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1977 (5. évfolyam, 13-15. szám)
1977 / 14. szám
MEETINGS The American Association for the Study of Hungarian History held its 1976 annual meeting in conjunction with that of the AAASS in St. Louis. Joseph Held (Rutgers U.) who was an active participant in several panels and meetings, provided HSN with the following report: There were four panels dealing exclusively with Hungarian topics. One on the Battle of Mohács (1526) was chaired by Held and included papers from László Alföldi (U.S. Army Historical Research Collection), who discussed the military aspects of the battle and concluded that defeat was a direct consequence of poor leadership; Janos Bak (U. of British Columbia) who evaluated the background of the battle in terms of social and political policies, and doubted that the 1514 peasant uprising had any effect on military weakness; Leslie S. Domonkos (Youngstown State U.) discussed the effects of the battle on Hungarian intellectual life, marking MISCELLANEOUS NEWS (Continued) L'insurrection hongrois de 1956 devant I'histoire. (Hungary 1956-1976: The insurrection in historical perspective). Dejaie, Chaussee de Dinant, 436. 5150 Wepion (Namur) Belgium. 200 pages, illustr., $8 paper. Numbered collector’s copies $16. Among several volumes published at the 20th anniversary of the 1956 uprising, this ambitious pocketbook succeeded in comprising a great deal of thought and data into its few pages. In four parts (the uprising, 5, 10, and 20 years after) it gives a chronological chain of reactions by poets, writers, and internationally known personalities. A very handy volume. □ Hungarian publications, scattered all over the libraries of the continent, have few catalogues and are therefore of limited use to the researcher. Thus, it is with satisfaction that I. L. Halász de Béky at the U. of Toronto began publishing bibliographies on limited Hungarian topics. The two first listings to appear are giving account of the works of Count István Széchenyi (68 entries) and of the Medieval Hungarian historians, (118 entries) available in the university’s John P. Roberts Research Library. The series appears under the collective title Bibliotheca Hungarica Torontonensis. Along similar lines is Joseph D. Dwyer's description of the Hungarian Collection at the Immigration History Research Center at the U. of Minnesota. For copies of the above write directly to the compilers. □ CANADIAN REVIEW OF STUDIES IN NATIONALISM is a new scholarly semiannual journal dedicated to the comparative study of nationalism the world over. In no. 1, vol. Ill (1976) it published an article by Kálmán Janies on “Czechoslovakia’s Magyar Minority: An Example of Diaspora Nationalism.” It also provides an annual annotated bibliographic supplement of literature relating to nationalism. The 1976 volume lists 132 annotated items on Magyar nationalism: “The Nationality Probelm in Hungarian Scholarly Literature (1945-1975); A Selected Bibliography” by Ambrus Miskolczy (Loránd Eötvös U.). Both, the bibliography and the above article were translated by T. Spira. The REVIEW solicits subscriptions and inquiries, as well as manuscripts in English, French, and German. Subscription rates: regular $9, student $5, two-year regular $14. For further information write to Dr. Thomas Spira, Editor, Dept. of History, U. of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada C1A 4P3. □ the end of the Hungarian Renaissance; Andrew Hess (U. of Pittsburgh (argued that the battle turned the attention of the Sublime Porte away from maritime ventures and carried the seeds of eventual decline. Two panels concerned themselves with the Hungarian Revolt of 1956. One, chaired by Andrew György (George Washington U.), contained three papers dealing with the intellectual atmosphere and economics before 1956, and the “first war between Socialist states.” Contributors were Tamas Aczel (U. of Massachusetts), Béla K. Király (Brooklyn Coll.), and Pal Jonas (U. of New Mexico). Discussant was Ivan Volgyes (U. of Nebraska). The second panel in this group dealt with the developments after 1956. Chaired by Paul Zinner (Stanford U.), it comprised papers by Joseph Held (Rutgers U.) discussing social developments in a historical perspective; Ivan Volgyes discussing “socialism with a bourgeois face;” Bennett Kovrig (U. of Toronto) concen(Continued on page 8) ENGLISH LANGUAGE JOURNALS ON HUNGARY HUNGARIAN STUDIES IN ENGLISH (ANGOL FILOLÓGIAI TANULMÁNYOK) No. 9 (1975), a journal of the English Department of the L. Kossuth U., Debrecen, has the following content: Zoltán Abádl-Nagy, The Principle of Metaphoric Means in John Barth’s Novels. Part One. Magdolna Zöld, American Belles Lettres in Hungarian Translation, 1962-1970. Gabriella Lengyel, The Role of Literature in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Katalin E. Kiss, Shakespeare’s Sonnets in Hungary. Judit Szabo-Pap, The Lonely Man in Angus Wilson's Fiction Klára Barczy, Popular Tendency in the Works of Csokonai and Burns. □ THE CANADIAN-AMERICAN REVIEW OF HUNGARIAN STUDIES. 3 (FALL) 1976 is a special issue on the HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION-TWENTY YEARS AFTER. Andra's Gollner (Corcordia U.), The Foundation of Soviet Domination and Communist Political Power in Hungary: 1945-1950; Tamás Aczel (U. of Massachusetts) Yogis and Commissars Reconsidered, 1953-1956; Bela K. Király (City U. of New York), The First War Between Socialist States: Military Aspects of the Hungarian Revolution; Paul Pilisi (U. of Ouebec) and G.C. Kuun (U. of New Brunswick), La Revolution Hongroise de 1956 et ITdee de la Federation Danubienne; Peter Gosztony (Schweitzerische Osteuropa Bibliothek), The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Viewed from Two Decades’ Distance; Ferenc Vali (U. of Massachusetts) Twenty Years After: Kádár and His Rule Assessed, 1956-1976; Barnabas A. Racz (Eastern Michigan U.), The Policy of Re-Centralization in Hungary, 1974-1976; Ivan Halasz de Beky (U. of Toronto), A Bibliography of the Hungarian Revolution 1956 (second supplement); Book Review by Bennett Kovrig (U. of Toronto): Remember Hungary 1956. □ NO. 14, 1977 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER 7
