Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1978 (6. évfolyam, 16-18. szám)
1978 / 18. szám
HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER No. 18 Winter, 1978-79 Published by the Hungarian Research Center of the American Hungarian Foundation in four numbers as three issues annually: Winter, Spring (two numbers included), and Autumn. Founder and editor: Bela Charles Maday. Journal editor: Enikő Molnár Basa. Corresponding editor: Lorant Czlgany (London). Communications concerning content should be addressed to the Editor, 4528-49th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20016. Communications concerning subscriptions, advertising, and circulation should be addressed to American Hungarian Foundation, 177 Somerset Street, P.O. Box 1084, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Annual subscription in the U.S.: $4.00: ABROAD: $5.00. Current single copy $1.50; back issues $2.00 each. Birmingham 15, B15 2TT, Great Britain. Correspondence relating to the French section should be addressed to Mme M. Aymard, Centre d'Etudes sur l'URSS et l'Europe Orientale, 54, Boulevard Raspail, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France. Kraus, David H. ed. THE AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES FOR 1975. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 190 West 19th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, 1978. 223 pages. $15.00. This is a fundamental reference source for American publications in Slavic and East European studies. Prepared at the Library of Congress with Anita Navon as associate editor, the bibliography has been published and distributed by AAASS annually since 1968-69. The volumes classify entries under broad subject headings with geographic subdivisions. Bibliographical and author indexes are provided. Volumes through 1966 are available from Indiana U. Press, Bloomington, IN 47401 .The 1967 volume may be ordered from the Ohio State U. Press, Columbus, OH 43210. No shipping charges on prepaid orders. Kalman, Be'la. THE WORLD OF NAMES: A Study in Hungarian Onomatology. Budapest: Akade'miai Kiadó, 1978. 199 pages, map, biblio. $12.50 cloth. This is a comprehensive survey of Hungarian onomatology (name-study) which experienced three editions in the original Magyar. Names in general are given to identify persons, to tell them apart from others, and the rules of giving names, both personal and geographical, are fairly uniform the world over. The author asserts that “every proper name can be traced back to a common noun, therefore every personal name or place-name originally had a meaning of its own." Hungarian last names (surnames) are only a few hundred years old. The more recent ones can be easily followed back to personal characteristics (Nagy), domicile (Lugosi), occupation (Kovács), while to do this with older names (like Bartók) requires linguistic expertise. The book is divided into three chapters: (1) proper names, (2) personal names, and (3) place names. A bibliography, a map of Hungary, and an index of names are useful appendices. Kipel, Zora comp. ETHNIC DIRECTORY OF NEW JERSEY. William H. Wise and Co., 336 Mountain Road, Union City, NJ 07087, 1978. 283 pages. $16.50 plus postage and tax; cloth. Anyone who has attempted field work among American ethnic groups was apt to feel frustrated in the absence of a directory outlining the basic social organizations and structure of such groups. This directory is intended to fill this gap partially and to help researchers (in addition to community leaders, teachers, librarians, etc.) finding their way into ethnic groups quickly. The directory lists cultural and fraternal organizations, churches, dance and choral groups and other congregates in alphabetical order of 65 ethnic groups. A total of 1,705 entries are given. Of these 140 refer to Hungarian associations. Each entry includes name and address of the organization, in many cases the head of the organization, telephone number, and a historical sketch. A regional index arranged by counties and towns shows New Brunswick as having the largest number of Hungarian organizations in New Jersey. We noticed with regret that the name of the American Hungarian Foundation is misquoted and no mention is made of the HSN. Rath, John R. ed. AUSTRIAN HISTORY YEARBOOK. Vol. XII-XIII (1976-1977). Rice U., Houston, TX 77001, 1978, 652 pages (two parts). $17.50 paper. For a general description of the Yearbook see HSN no. 9, page 1 and 2. The recent volume provides a wealth of Hungarian-related material with the thoroughness and accuracy characteristic of earlier volumes. Part I, begins with a collection of essays on the National Interests and Cosmopolitan Goals in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848- 1849. The authors are Istváíi Deák, Bela K. Király, László Deme, Joseph F. Zacek, and Radu R. Florescu. All articles have comments and a reply by the author. In the section on Eighteenth-Century Relations with the Turks and Serbs, Philip J. Adler has an essay on Serbs, Magyars, and Staatsinteresse in Eighteenth Century Austria: A Study in the History of Habsburg Administration. In a section on World War I, Robert Wegs presents a paper on The Marshaling of Copper: An Index of Austro-Hungarian Economic Mobilization during World War I. A 20-page long essay by György Ranki and Miklós Laco'on The Restoration and Crisis of Capitalism in Hungary concludes the first part. Part II concerns itself mainly with bibliographies and book reviews. Some of the books reviewed (in English, of course), are Etudes Historiques Hongroises, 1975; Horvath and Szekely, Középkori kútfőink kritikus kérdései (Critical questions of our medieval sources); Trócsányi, Erdélyi kormanyhatésagi levéltárak (The governmental archives of Transylvania); Andies, Metternich und die Frage Ungarns (Metternich and the Hungarian question); Poliak, 1848 - Revolution auf halben Wege (1848 - A half-way revolution); Spira, A Hungarian Count in the Revolution of 1848; Toth, Parteien und Reichstagswahlen in Ungarn 1848-1892 (Parties and parliamentary elections in Hungary 1848-1892); Diószegi, Österreich-Ungarn und der französisch-preussische Krieg 1870-1871 (Austria-Hungary and the French-Prussian War of 1870-1871); Kende, A magyarországi Szociáldemokrata Párt nemzetiségi politikája 1903-1919 (The nationality policy of the Hungarian Socialdemocratic Party 1903-1919); Ara, L'Austria-Ungheria nella politica americana durante la prima guerra mondiale (Austria-Hungary in American politics during World War I). Toma Peter A. and Ivan Volgyes, POLITICS IN HUNGARY. W.H. Freeman and Co., 660 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94104, 1977. 188 pages, tables, charts, diagrams, biblio. $12.00 cloth. This is a specialized study taking issue with the Almond and Powell model of structure-function analysis in describing 2 NO. 18, 1979, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
