Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1978 (6. évfolyam, 16-18. szám)

1978 / 16. szám

BOOKS (Continued)

1971. It includes a formidable number of 3,730 entries on monographs available in major libraries, such as the U. of Toronto Library, the Library of Congress, and the British Museum. Call numbers are included for holdings in all three institutions, and location references are given for books held by other libraries. The volume is divided into four major parts: Historical Periods; General References; General History; and Hungarian Civilization and Culture. The Hungarian titles of works listed are translated into English, but no translation is given for titles in languages other than Hungarian. The collection does not contain titles of periodical articles. Work on a second volume is in progress. This will include entries on World Wars I and II, and will list more references in the fields of geography and ethnography.

The author is associated with the John Robart Library of the U. of Toronto.

UNGARN-JAHRBUCH is an annual devoted to Hungarology and related studies. Founded and edited by George Stadtmüller with the cooperation of an editorial group which includes Imre Boba (U. of Washington). The yearbook is published by the Ungarisches Institut, Clemenstrasse 2, 8 Munich 40, West Germany. Vol. 7 (1976) contains eight articles, a research report, and 85 book reviews written by a total of 35 contributors. About 40 pages (out of a total of 302) are in English, others are mostly in German and Hungarian. Imre Boba writes on Saint Andreas-Zoerard: a Pole or an Istrian? (pp. 65-72); Steven B. Vardy on The Origins of Jewish Emancipation in Hungary: The Roie of Baron Joseph Eötvös (pp. 137-166); W. Lindl reviews S.B. Vardy's Hungarian Historiography and the Geistesgeschichte School (p. 271); F. Hartmannsgruber reviews D.B. Quinn’s Stephen Parmenius of Buda, The First Hungarian in North America (p. 249); E. Volk reviews G. David’s Some aspects of the 16th century population in the sanjáq ofSimontornya (p. 250), and E. Sniezyriska-Stolot’s Queen Elisabeth as a Patron of Architecture (p.284); and H. Bleckwenn hasa review of A.H. Vardy’s A Study of Austrian Romanticism (p. 291).

Anyone interested in contributing essays or book reviews may contact Dr. Imre Boba, Dept, of History, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.

Varsányi, Julius ed. QUEST FOR A NEW CENTRAL EUROPE; A Symposium. Australian Carpathian Federation, Adelaide-Sydney, Australia; distributed in the U.S. by American Transylvanian Federation, P.O. Box 1671, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10017,1977.295 pages, tables, charts, list of geographical names. $12.50 cloth.

This formidable volume was authored by thirteen scholars from a score of disciplines and a variety of countries. The editor was assisted by Stephen Krassay (Adelaide), and a preface was written by Eugene Padanyi-Gulyas (Billings, Montana). The papers are grouped into two parts. The first deal with the “substratum is what seems to be more “superstructure.” The substratum is what seems to be more permanent, such as geography, history, demography, natural resources, and the roots of an integrative potential among the East and Central European countries of Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. The second part, concerns the present and the

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future, investigating the feasibility of some kind of cooperation or voluntary federation among a few or all the countries concerned. Papers point toward a need for accepting a pluralistic society, neutrality, economic integration. They investigate the legal bases of federalism, federations, interstate jurisdiction, and new policies for such basic problems as the nationality or minority accommodation in such a new political formulation. Especially novel is the chapter on “Indicators of Integrative Potential” by László A. Foldvary, who sketches, though superficially, the linguistic and religious diversity of the region, and enumerates social and cultural indicators on a comparative basis. He attempts to identify the similarities and dissimilarities of the nations involved, and he concludes that assuming some flexibility in the deliniation of the boundaries of the region, features in the history and in the cultures of the area seem to be sufficiently common to make some form of integration possible. However, Padanyi-Gulyas justly asks: “....why does the

world not allow these nations to form their own New Central Europe?”

The editor is Research Associate (formerly Lecturer) at the Law Department of the U. of Adelaide, South Australia.

Volgyes, Ivan and Nancy Volgyes. THE LIBERATED FEMALE; Life, Work, and Sex in Socialist Hungary. Westview Press, 1898 Flatiron Court, Boulder, CO 80301, 1977. 240 pages, tables, cartoons. $13.25 cloth.

The authors consider the present rather progressive Hungarian legislation in favor of equality between men and women an experiment which began shortly before the turn of the century, and continued under changing ideologies and governments to the present day. The fact that social legislation is advanced does not automatically mean that equality has been achieved. There is more than the usual discrepancy between norm and practice as far as equality of women is concerned. Women have a long way to go before they will share equally in resources, opportunities, and obligations. This was made clear to the authors by the over 300 persons they interviewed. The study is divided into chapters dealing with a good number of pertinent topics, such as demographical factors, sex relationships, birth control, marriage and family, divorce pattern, division of labor and income, child support and welfare measures, and aging.

Ivan Volgyes is Prof, of Political Science and Director of the Graduate Program on Rural Transformation at the U. of Nebraska-Lincoln; and Nancy Volgyes is a graduate student of geography at the same institution.

NOTE: We deeply regret that the publisher did not find it necessary to place diacritical marks on Hungarian words. This omission deducts substantially from the readability of the volume.

NO. 16, 1978 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER