Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1980 (8. évfolyam, 23-26. szám)

1980 / 26. szám

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AHF grants. The American Hungarian Foundation awarded grants in 1979-80 to the U. of Connecticut to begin a first year Hungarian language course; to Portland State U. for its summer session of Hungarian studies at Ohio Northern U.; and to Mary Boros-Kazai, a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana U., for research on Hungarian emigration to America. Other research grants were awarded to Robert Hosh, László Kürti and Lea Levay. □

The Committee for Danublan Research, Inc. was established “to assist, promote, conduct, encourage and disseminate to the general public scholarly research concerning various aspects of the Danubian region and its peoples.” The first project under preparation is a book of essays on Making of Post World War I Peace: A Case Study on Trianon, (based on a symposium by the same name held in November 1980) to be published in the Brooklyn College Studies on Society in Change series, in cooperation with the Graduate Center of the CUNY. For more information write to Mr. Frank Koszorús, Jr., Chairman, Board of Directors, Committee for Danubian Research, 2926 33rd Place, N. W., Washington, DC 20008. □ Zoltán Kövecses from the English Department of Eötvös Lóránt U. participated in a sporthistorical conference organized by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA, in June 1980. The title of his paper was "Sports as possible worlds". □

R. John Rath, editor of the Austrian History Yearbook moved to Minneapolis where his address is Center for Austrian Studies, Social Sciences Building, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. □

Hungarian scholars interested In the Felvidék (Upper Hungary) may wish to contact M. Mark Stolarlk, Secretary- Treasurer of the Slovak Studies Association, 700 Penfield Avenue, Havertown, PA 19083. (AASHH Newsletter) □

The Kodály Musical Training Institute received another Ford Foundation grant of $185,000 over a three-year period. This brings the Foundation’s support of the institute to about $1 million since 1969. To serve its objectives better, the KMTI moved its headquarters to Hartford, Connecticut, where it will cooperate closely with the Hartt School of Music of the U. of Hartford, and with the public school system of West Hartford, which has the most extensive Kodály elementary music program in the country. KMTI’s new address is: 211 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06117. □

Reprints of unpublished Hungarian government documents

and other archival sources are made available to researchers by the Universe Publishing Co., 185 West Demarest Avenue, Englewood, NJ 07631. Some examples: Roster of Hungarian Royal Army Officers (1360 pages, $70); records of interrogations at Sopron-Kohida (422 pages, $16); wartime diary of General János Vörös, Chief of Staff (297 pages, $15); confidential correspondence of European political leaders and generals before October 15, 1944 (86 pages, $8); and

reports on a secret meeting of the Crown Council of the Szálasi government (150 pages, $12). For copies write to György Redey, above address. □

Osze, Andrew, GILGAMESH. Text and editing by Leslie Könnyű and Jean Shirley. American-Hungarian Review, 5410Kerth Road, St. Louis, MO 63128,1980.168 pages, illus. $10 cloth; $6 paper.

This album presents 70 drawings by New York sculptor Osze, and annotations for each of the plates by Könnyű and Shirley. The only theme of the drawings is the epos of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, the Sumerian city-state of 2700 BC. In addition to data on the artist’s life and work, the volume includes a Gilgamesh bibliography of English and Hungarian sources. □

Mercer County Community College in Trenton, N.J. has introduced Hungarian language courses. The first offering is elementary Hungarian with other courses planned. On January 22,1981, this class had an enrollment of 16 students.

EDITOR'S CORNER

I received a heartwarming letter from J.L., an acquisition librarian at a prestigious institution. She writes: "the HSN is my principal source of information for the acquisition of Hungarian and East European related publications. I don't know how I was able to perform my job before I learned of HSN.” Does your local public or academic librarians know the HSN? If not, could you do something about it? We need to be known to be used.

The index is hounding us. Joe StClair, in the process of preparing the index, was warned by his opthalmologist to rest his eyes for a while. Hence, the completion of the index is back in my lap. Bear with us, please.

Elek Horvath, Eve E. Koehler, Miklós Kontra, Leslie Könnyű, Martin L. Kovács, John Miska, Ivan Sanders, and Edward A. Tuleya extended assistance to the editor. Such outreach keeps me going. Many thanks. j^e Editor

HUNGARIAN REFERENCE SHELF

A series of inexpensive publications facilitating Hungarian related research for the English speaking scholar. Please request complete list.

1. HUNGARIAN ETHNOGRAPHY: A Bibliography of English Language Sources, by David R. Howell (University of Virginia), 1976. 319 entries, 24 pages. $1.80 plus 30<t handling, $2.10.

3. HUNGARIAN ECONOMIC REFORMS: A Selective, Partially Annotated Bibliography, by Gabriel F. Horchler (Library of Congress), 1977.1.620 entries, 190 pages. $4.95 paper; $9.95 cloth, plus postage and handling.

5. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HUNGARIAN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Compiled by Andrew Kerek (Miami University), 1978. $2.75 plus 75<t handling, $3.50.

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