A comprehensive survey of concepts, architects, designs and manifestations of an idiosyncratic national style from the antecedents in Romanticism (Frigyes Feszl) through the fin de siécle rejection of eclectic Historicism to the contemporary aspirations of Imre Makovecz.
ERDÉLY, Miklós:
A filmrõl
Válogatott írások.
II.
[On film. Selected writings. II.] Budapest:
Balassi Kiadó - BAE Tartóshullám-Intermedia, 309 p.
ISBN 963-506-019-x
Miklós Erdély was a legendary figure of the neo-avant-garde in Hungary. The volume contains theoretical writings, semiotic studies, script projects and scripts for experimental films many of which were banned by the communist authorities.
NAGY, Elemér:
Az építõ Kós
Károly
[Károly Kós the architect.]
Budapest-Kolozsvár: Balassi Kiadó-Kós Károly
Alapítvány-Polis Kiadó,
155 p.
ISBN 963-506-047-5
In this sumptuously illustrated book the author, a noted architect, presents features of the many-sided oeuvre of Károly Kós to make it available to artists and architects in other countries. Kós's architectural works, and design graphics embody his native region's heritage, what one might call the genius loci.
This outline compiled within the framework of Partnership in Transition, focusses on the macroeconomic trends of 1993-1995, analyzes Hungary's international competitiveness and the measures taken for structural reform with plenty of detailed charts and relevant data.
Innovációs folyamatok a
magyar gazdaságban
[Innovation processes in the Hungarian
economy.] Ed. Edit Jávorka. Budapest: Országos Mûszaki
Fejlesztési Bizottság, 152 p.
ISBN 963-8244-26-7
A report on research funded by the National Committee for Technological Development. It reflects the axiomatic tenet that education, R & D, and the transfer of know-how are necessary for making the Hungarian economy competitive internationally and for the viability of modernization strategies.
VÖRÖS, Imre:
A nemzetközi kooperációs
szerzõdések
[Contracts for international cooperation.]
Budapest, 190 p.
ISBN 963-04-5587-0
An account of forms of contract used primarily in cooperation between European Union and Hungarian firms. It takes stock of cooperation schemes that prevailed in the era of socialism (East-West economic ties) and provides a thorough legal background for new forms of business agreements.
A survey of public education including local government education policy and relevant legal regulations.
Tantervi változatok a magyarországi
zsidó iskolákban (1780-1990)
[Curriculum variations of Jewish schools
in Hungary 1780-1990.] Ed. László Felkai. Budapest: Országos
Közoktatási Intézet, 262 p. (A tantervelmélet
forrásai. 16.)
ISBN 963-682-422-3
Part of the Sources of Curriculum Theory series. The book highlights the main features of Jewish education in Hungary over the past 200 years. 48 documents, from the curriculum of a 1828 elementary school to that of an Orthodox Jewish secondary school in 1943 are included.
The author, an ethnographer whose field work and publications cover Hungarian folk customs from regions ranging from the Austrian Burgenland to Romanian Moldavia, here publishes songs, children's games, scenes performed on festive occasions drawn from his own collections.
ÚJVÁRY, Zoltán:
Miscellanea
Debrecen, 385 p.
(Folklór és etnográfia.
89.)
ISBN 963-472-045-5
A selection of articles, studies and lectures,
mostly based on the author's original field work in Hungarian ethnography.
A number of theoretical writings place
Hungarian popular culture in its European context. One of the papers concerns
a rarely studied field: interaction between villagers who returned from
the US and others who never left a small village in county Gömör.
Vilmos Bondor and Zoltán Mikó, both army officers, were active members of the Hungarian resistance. In November 1944 Mikó helped Wallenberg place his papers, which contained documents on the Katyn massacre given to Wallenberg by Polish refugees, in the safe of a bank in Budapest. Later, the papers were seized by the Russians and Mikó - like Wallenberg - vanished in the Gulag.
FÜRSTNER, László:
Történelem és kultúra
új megvilágításban.
I. kötet. Afrika-Ázsia-Európa
[History and culture in a new perspective.
Vol. 1. Africa-Asia-Europe.] Dunakeszi, 527 p.
ISBN 963-650-213-7
A treatise on the history of culture which draws on many archaeological and anthropological sources. This pioneering work attempts to present the excavations of the past 40 years in their trans-continental complexity. The themes explored go all the way from the Leakeys' finds through the Hellenistic period to the origin of the Celts and Basks.
KERTÉSZ, István:
Magyar békeillúziók
1945-1947. Oroszország és a Nyugat között
[Between Russia and the West. Hungary and
the illusions of peacemaking, 1945-1947.] Transl. Angéla Gyarmati.
Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, 594 p.
(Extra Hungariam.)
ISBN 963-07-5800-8
Original edition: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, 1984. Volume 10 of the Extra Hungariam series which includes memoirs by Hungarian exile politicians. Kertész was the General Secretary of the Hungarian delegation at the Paris peace conference. He later went to the US and became a distinguished political analyst. This book is not only a memoir but also a major and well-documented work on the history of diplomacy. Kertész's The Last European Peace Conference: Paris 1946 - Conflict of Values, Lanham, MD, 1985, contains the documents of the Hungarian peace talks in Paris.
LUKACS, John:
Az európai világháború
1939-1941
[The Last European War 1939-1941.] Transl.
Tamás Magyarits and Klára Mészáros. Budapest:
Európa Könyvkiadó, 730 p.
ISBN 963-07-5829-6
Original edition: Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 1976. A number of hitherto inaccessible archival sources are used. The first part (The Events) outlines the movements of states and armies in the warfare, the second part (The Trends) gives an account of everyday life, economic conditions, political consciousness, deportations. There is reference to the background of events which eventually led to the occupation of Hungary in 1944.
RÓNA-TAS, András:
A magyarság korai története
[The early history of the Magyars.] Szeged:
JATE Õstörténeti Kutatócsoport, 329 p.
ISBN 963-482-671-9
Although much of Hungarian prehistory is shrouded in mystery due to the paucity of written sources, Professor Róna-Tas attempts in this collection of studies to raise, argue and even clarify a number of questions relying upon new knowledge provided by archaeology, linguistics, ethnography and other disciplines, making some earlier syntheses obsolete.
SZÁNTÓ, László:
Az 1956-os forradalom Somogyban. Válogatott
dokumentumok
[The 1956 Revolution in County Somogy.
Selected documents.] Kaposvár: Somogy Megyei Levéltár.
515 p.
ISBN 963-7232-249
An account of the sequence of events during the Revolution and its aftermath. Meticulous treatment and detailed mustering of hitherto unpublished data make it a valuable contribution to the history of the 1956 Revolution.
ZSIGMONDY, László:
A 2. magyar hadsereg a Szovjetunió
elleni háborúban 1942-1943.
[The 2nd Hungarian Army in the war against
the Soviet Union 1942-1943.]. Ed. Ferenc Erdõs. Székesfehérvár,
247 p. (Fejér Megyei Levéltár közleményei.
18.)
ISBN 963-7233-18-0
An account by a staff officer who experienced personally the destruction of the 2nd Hungarian Army at the river Don.
The author is a university professor and international judge who has held positions in the state administration in recent years and took part in negotiations on Hungary's associate membership in the EC in 1991. Topics include an overview of the institutions of the European Community, legislative powers, and EC-Hungarian law coordination.
Iratok az igazságszolgáltatás
történetéhez. 4. Kúriai teljes ülések,
népbírósági statisztikák, IM-állásfoglalások,
kegyelmi elõterjesztések, Nagy Imre és társai
ügye 1989-ben.
[Documents from the history of the administration
of law. 4. Sessions of the Hungarian Supreme Court, statistics of the People's
Tribunal, clemency pleas, the case of Imre Nagy and his associates in 1989.]
Ed. Pál Solt et al. Budapest: Közgazdasági és
Jogi Könyvkiadó, 1071 p.
ISBN 963-222-922-3
The fourth sequel of the series launched
in 1992 contains 118 documents, most of them facsimiles. Documents from
the 1920s are seminal for current debates on the autonomy of the judiciary.
The documents of the mistrials of the 1950s
and especially those concerning Prime Minister Imre Nagy are first published
here.
KUKORELLI, István:
Az alkotmányozás évtizede.
Közjogi, politikai tanulmányok, parlamenti jegyzetek
[The decade of constitutional activity.
Political and legal studies, parliamentary notes.] Budapest: Korona Kiadó,
322 p.
ISBN 963-8153-66-0
An analysis of court cases and debates in the post-1989 transition period with the new state, administrative, governmental and legislative bodies in the throes of creating a new constitutional, legal and political system.
In this collection of semiotic studies by some fifty scholars the concepts of sign, metaphor and symbol are discussed in their social context and with a thorough interdisciplinary approach. Themes addressed include the views of various schools of symbol research, its major representatives from Cassirer to Foucault, methodological issues, ethnic identity, religious rites as well as cultural anthropology.
Túl a Kecegárdán.
Calumet-vidéki amerikai-magyar szótár
[Beyond Castle Garden. An American-Hungarian
dictionary of the Calumet Region.] Coll. Endre Vázsonyi. Ed. Miklós
Kontra. Budapest: Teleki László Alapítvány,
242 p.
ISBN 963-04-5232-4
This volume is a unique dictionary within Hungarian lexicography, a fine and rare example of language contact by prominent scholars, the late Professor Endre Vázsonyi and his wife Linda Dégh. Drawing upon tape-recorded interviews, the book preserves the now extinct language used by Hungarian immigrants who settled in Michigan in the early years of the 20th century.
The author describes the motifs of an outstanding historical event running through a nation's literature. He singled out Italian literature as the central theme of an impact analysis because the Risorgimento, the 19th-century movement for unity, was profoundly influenced by the French Revolution and Italian literature at the time was almost entirely a reflection of this movement.
PÁL, Ferenc:
Eca de Queirós és a realizmus
[Eca de Queirós and Realism.] Budapest:
Nemzeti Tankönykiadó, 105 p.
ISBN 963-18-6885-0
A portrait of the Portuguese writer and key figure of the famous "Generation of the 70s". Inspired by Balzac and Flaubert he declared, in 1871, the superiority of Realism over an obsolescent Romanticism.
SZABICS, Imre:
A trubadúrok költészete
[Poetry of the troubadours.] Budapest:
Balassi Kiadó, 256 p.
ISBN 963-506-022-X
The first comprehensive study by an Hungarian literary historian of troubadour verse. (Troubadour music was the theme of a book by Zoltán Falvy, Budapest, Akadémiai, 1986.) Szabics scrutinizes the trends and representatives of fin'amor, exposes its relations to medieval Arabic and Latin love poetry and to Neo-Platonism.
TASI, József:
József Attila és a Bartha
Miklós Társaság
[Attila József and the Miklós
Bartha Society.] Ungvár-Budapest: Galéria-Ecriture, 239 p.
ISBN 963-8424-12-5
The author, drawing on a number of unpublished sources, presents the activity of a radical group of young intellectuals concerned with the village and rural areas, and describes the poet's involvement with the Society after 1928.
The life of József Grõsz, second to the Primate in hierarchy of the Hungarian Catholic Church was - like Mindszenty's - a series of trials and tribulations. He was also, in the early 1950s condemned to a long prison term on trumped-up charges. His diaries now published emerged from the archives of the Department of the Interior in 1990 and are a vivid account of the period from October 1944 to January 1946.
KOVALOVSZKY, Miklós:
Lidércnyomás. Napló
1944. október 8-1945. január 8.
[Nightmare. A diary: October 8 1944-January
8 1945.] Budapest: Argumentum,
329 p.
An authentic day-to-day account of the siege of Budapest. The writer's personal tone and evocative power grips the reader throughout and renders the events in their diabolical perspective.
A history of the Uniate Church and a summary of the culture of the Byzantine Rite in Poland. The period discussed starts with the Union of Brest-Litovsk in 1596, the birth of the Uniate Church and ends with its renaissance in the early 1990s.
Zsidók Oroszországban 1900-1929.
[Jews in Russia 1900-1929.] Ed. Tamás
Krausz. Budapest: ELTE Magyar Ruszisztikai Intézet-MTA Judaisztikai
Kutatócsoport. 199 p. (Ruszisztikai könyvek. 1.; MTA Judaisztikai
Kutatócsoport Értesitõ. 13.)
ISBN 963-7730-17-6
A collection of studies with original documents based partly on Krausz's research work in the Bund Archives in New York.
A comprehensive survey of the some two-thousand folk hymns of the Hungarian churches, from the first non-liturgical chants of the 11th century through those of the Reformation down to the 20th century.
An analysis of the process of Hungary's debt-accumulation in the era of socialism, the recurring attempts to cope with this ever aggravating problem, the struggle of reform vs orthodoxy - political and economic - a series of failures which left a formidable burden for Hungarian society for decades to come.
SCHLETT, István:
Színjáték vagy
háború?
A magyar politika négy éve
[Charade or war? Four years of Hungarian
politics.] Budapest: Cserépfalvi, 337 p.
ISBN 963-8364-39-4
A selection of studies, articles and interviews from the 1990-1994 period by a political scientist who teaches at Eötvös Loránd University.
Nagy Ferenc miniszterelnök. Visszaemlékezések,
tanulmányok, cikkek
[Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy.] Ed. István
Csicsery-Rónay. Budapest: Occidental Press, 161 p. ISBN 963-7871-05-5
A volume of recollections and studies mostly
by prominent Hungarians of the Coalition Period (1945-1947);
a portrait and an account of the activities
of a statesman of peasant birth who, as Prime Minister of Hungary, tried
to maintain Hungary's independence vis-à-vis the ever-growing pressure
of the Soviet-backed communists but was eventually forced to resign and
go into exile in early 1947.
This volume, based on an 11-part series
of discussions conducted by Júlia Ránki and broadcast on
Bartók Radio in 1992, adresses the theme from a variety of angles,
as expounded by some thirty prominent Hungarian intellectuals.
The authors include Ferenc Erõs,
Mihály Hoppál, István Jelenits, Mihály Kornis,
Mária Ludassy and József Schweitzer.
KERÉNYI, Károly:
Az égei ünnep. Tanulmányok
a 40-es évekbõl
[The Aegean feast. Studies from the 1940s.]
Ed. Éva Kocziszky. Budapest: Kráter
Mûhely Egyesület. 119 p.
ISBN 963-7583-45-9
In this selection of writings the great classical scholar, better known as Karl Kerényi, discusses the Hellenic religious cults, the phenomena of mythical worldview as they reflect the eternal questions of life, fate, and death. Originally published as Humanistische Seelenforschung (München-Wien, 1964)
A collection of studies by the late sociologist of religion on small denominations, including Pentecostals, Catholic base communities and new religious movements.
A századvég szellemi körképe
[Panorama des idées contemporaines.]
Pécs: Jelenkor Kiadó, 428 p.
ISBN 963-676-001-2
Conceived in the light of Gaetan Picon's volume published in the early 1960s, this impressive collection of writings presents the Hungarian intellectual scene in an all-embracing manner. It is not a systematic summary but rather an overview of trends in politics, ideology, science, culture, religion, art and literature written by a whole range of distinguished authors.
VÁSÁRHELYI, Mária:
Rendszerváltás alulnézetben
[A worm's eye view of the change of system.]
Budapest: Pesti Szalon,
206 p.
ISBN 963-605-094-5
A sociological asessment of prevailing trends of opinions and ideologies, commonly-held assumptions, seminal social and economic issues in post-1989 Hungary as reflected in public opinion polls conducted up to November 1994.
Vera (nem csak) a Városban. Tanulmányok
a 65 éves Bácskai Vera tiszteletére
[Vera (not only) in the City. Studies in
honor of Vera Bácskai on the occasion of her 65th birthday.]
Budapest: Hajnal István Kör-Társadalomtörténeti
Egyesület 521 p. (Rendi társadalom-polgári társadalom:
Supplementum.)
ISBN 963-260-076-2
An impressive collection of forty-one studies in homage of the prominent social and economic historian who has pioneered quantitative methods in the field of urban history and who has taught a new generation of historians.