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Hungarian Cultural Studies @HCS_Journal

Hungarian Cultural Studies, Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association, is a scholarly forum for research in or related to Hungarian studies.

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It took some 70 years after WWII for the educated part of the Hungarian public to obtain comprehensive information on the double tragedy of Hungary’s participation in the German military campaign against the Soviet Union. Read the full article here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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This article focuses on the English translation and reception of a major contemporary Hungarian novel, Ádám Bodor’s "The Sinistra Zone." Read the full article here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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This study explores popular responses to communist rule in Hungary and the role of Western media in the years leading up to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Read the full article here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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This paper elaborates on Herta Müller’s Gulag novel, "Atemschaukel," in the historical, political and ethical contexts of 20th century forced migrations. Read the full article here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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Two Hungarian authors, Sándor Márai and Péter Nádas, seem to have one thing in common: their attraction to triangular relationships. Read more here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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The Hungarian populist writers Gyula Illyés and Lajos Nagy visited the Soviet Union together during the summer of 1934 as guests of the Union of Soviet Writers. Upon returning to Hungary, Illyés and Nagy published their impressions in separate travelogues. ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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This paper describes the reactions of the Catholic and Protestant Churches and examines their social background by analyzing the denominational and literary conditions of Hungary at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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This article proposes studying plaster as a material archive containing unintentionally preserved traces of the past that may include fragments of advertisements, graffiti, bullet holes, or virtually any inscription that would otherwise disappear. ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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Although three notable American editors opposed Lajos Kossuth before and during his visit to the United States in 1851-52, the most influential was arguably James Watson Webb, editor of the New York Courier and Enquirer. Read more here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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The main aim of the authors' research is to provide an overview of what role language education plays in how Hungarians living in diaspora communities preserve their cultural identity. Read the full article here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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This paper focuses on a novel by Miklós Mészöly, Pontos történetek, útközben [1970, ‘Accurate Stories on the Road’], that was based on Alaine Polcz’s tape recorded narration of her journeys mostly to Transylvania. Read the full article here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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In this interdisciplinary article that draws on the intersections of Hungarian and Jewish Studies, the author investigates the socio-political role of beauty pageants in 1920s Hungarian social, political and cultural life. ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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This study surveys the life and work of Baroness Elemérné Bornemissza, an internationalist Transylvanian aristocrat, primarily known as the famous literary patron of Erdélyi Helikon and lifelong muse of Count Miklós Bánffy de Losoncz. ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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The article reviews recent scholarship on Hungarian cinema in the age of rising nationalism, anti-Semitism and World War II. Read the full article here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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This is a compilation of essays by authors that focus on Ferenc Koszorús, a wartime colonel of the Hungarian army fighting as an ally of Germany who ostensibly was responsible for saving the Jews of Budapest. Read the full article here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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This review examines how two recent biographies about members of the Polanyi family treat their protagonists and the forces that shaped their lives after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Read the full article here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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The main aim of the authors' research is to provide an overview of what role language education plays in how Hungarians living in diaspora communities preserve their cultural identity. Read the full article here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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This paper focuses on Imre Kertész’s "Fateless" and Alaine Polcz’s "One Woman in the War." Read the full article here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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After providing a brief overview of the life and late works of Thass-Thienemann, this study offers a comprehensive analysis of his book "The Interpretation of Language" (1973). Read the full article here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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In this article, the authors aims to explore the issues connected to the authorship of Rózsa G. Hajnóczy's "Fire of Bengal" while examining it from a comparative cultural perspective via textual analysis. Read the full article here: ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/ahea/artic…
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