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Book A Hungarian Woman s Life

Download or read book A Hungarian Woman s Life written by Erzsebet Croll and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Read the harrowing life story of the author as she retells the horrors of her past living under German and Soviet occupation, experiencing the bombing of her hometown, and fleeing with her first husband to America after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Book A Hungarian Woman s Life

Download or read book A Hungarian Woman s Life written by Erzsebet Kertesz Dobosi Croll and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erzsebet survived life under the German occupation, experienced the bombing of her hometown, and then fled to America.

Book Hungarian Woman s Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Erzsebet Kertesz Dobosi Croll
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Hungarian Woman s Life written by Erzsebet Kertesz Dobosi Croll and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erzsebet survived life under the German occupation, experienced the bombing of her hometown, and then fled to America.

Book One Woman in the War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alaine Polcz
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 9789639241541
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book One Woman in the War written by Alaine Polcz and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the publication of this book, Alaine Polcz was widely recognized as a psychologist ministering to the needs of disturbed and incurably ill children and their families, as the author of numerous articles and several books on thanatology, and as the founder of the hospice movement in Hungary. The autobiographic account of the experiences of a woman, then 19-20, in the closing months of the Second World War. When it was first published, in 1991, the book was a revelation of past horrors in Hungary which, until then, had lingered on in the farthest reaches of the national memory as rumor and suspicion about the violent acts committed against women during a time of chaos, havoc, and savagery. The literary world quickly recognized the merits of this book: It was highly praised by Hungarian reviewers, awarded prizes, and has already been translated into French, Rumanian, Slovenian, and Serbian. "A woman's life at the front. Hunger, lice, digging trenches, peeling potatoes, cold, filth. This life was not only mine. My husband's white-haired mother was dragged away and raped as pubescent girls were. Russian soldiers attacked me, beat me, protected me, stepped on my hand with a boot, fed me.

Book The Essential Guide to Being Hungarian

Download or read book The Essential Guide to Being Hungarian written by ISTVAN BORI and published by New Europe Books. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it to be Hungarian? What does it feel like? Most Hungarians are convinced that the rest of the world just doesn't get them. They are right. True, much of the world thinks highly of Hungarians--for reasons ranging from their heroism in the 1956 revolution to their genius as mathematicians, physicists, and financiers. But Hungarians do often seem to be living proof of the old joke that Magyars are in fact Martians: they may be situated in the very heart of Europe, but they are equipped with a confounding language, extraterrestrial (albeit endearing) accents, and an unearthly way of thinking. What most Hungarians learn from life about the Magyar mind is now available, for the first time, in this user-friendly guide to what being Hungarian is all about. The Essential Guide to Being Hungarian brings together twelve authors well-versed in the quintessential ingredients of being Hungarian--from the stereotypical Magyar man to the stereotypical Magyar woman, foods to folk customs, livestock to literature, film to philosophy, politics to porcelain, and scientists to sports. In fifty short, highly readable, often witty, sometimes politically incorrect, but always candid articles, the authors demonstrate that being credibly Hungarian--like being French, Polish or Japanese--is largely a matter of carrying around in your head a potpourri of conceptions and preconceptions acquired over the years from your elders, society, school, the streets, and mass media. Compacting this wealth of knowledge into an irresistible little book, The Essential Guide to Being Hungarian is an indispensable reference that will teach you how to be Hungarian, even if you already are.

Book Hungarian Women   s Activism in the Wake of the First World War

Download or read book Hungarian Women s Activism in the Wake of the First World War written by Judith Szapor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a wide range of previously unpublished archival, written, and visual sources, Hungarian Women's Activism in the Wake of the First World War offers the first gendered history of the aftermath of the First World War in Hungary. The book examines women's activism during the post-war revolutions and counter-revolution. It describes the dynamic of the period's competing, liberal, Christian-conservative, socialist, radical socialist, and right-wing nationalistic women's movements and pays special attention to women activists of the Right. In this original study, Judith Szapor goes on to convincingly argue that illiberal ideas on family and gender roles, tied to the nation's regeneration and tightly woven into the fabric of the interwar period's right-wing, extreme nationalistic ideology, greatly contributed to the success of Miklós Horthy's regime. Furthermore the book looks at the long shadow that anti-liberal, nationalist notions of gender and family cast on Hungarian society and provides an explanation for their persistent appeal in the post-Communist era. This is an important text for anyone interested in women's history, gender history and Hungary in the 20th century.

Book The Women of the Arrow Cross Party

Download or read book The Women of the Arrow Cross Party written by Andrea Pető and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility. It examines why and how far-right women in general and among them several Second World War perpetrators were made invisible by their fellow Arrow Cross Party members in the 1930s and during the war (1939-1945), and later by the Hungarian people’s tribunals responsible for the purge of those guilty of war crimes (1945-1949). It argues that because of their ‘invisibilization’ the legacy of these women could remain alive throughout the years of state socialism and that, furthermore, this legacy has actively contributed to the recent insurgence of far-right politics in Hungary. This book therefore analyses how the invisibility of Second World War perpetrators is connected to twenty-first century memory politics and the present-day resurgence of far-right movements.

Book Working Difference

    Book Details:
  • Author : Éva Fodor
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2003-01-20
  • ISBN : 0822384485
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book Working Difference written by Éva Fodor and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-20 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Éva Fodor examines women's inclusion in and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of the twentieth century. Until the end of World War II women's lives in the two countries, which were once part of the same empire, followed similar paths, which only began to diverge after the communist takeover in Hungary in the late 1940s. Fodor takes advantage of Austria and Hungary's common history to carefully examine the effects of state socialism and the differing trajectories to social mobility and authority available to women in each country. Fodor brings qualitative and quantitative analyses to bear, combining statistical analyses of survey data, interviews with women managers in both countries, and archival materials including those from the previously classified archives of the Hungarian communist party and transcripts from sessions of the Austrian Parliament. She shows how women's access to power varied in degree and operated through different principles and mechanisms in accordance with the stratification systems of the respective countries. In Hungary women's mobility was curtailed by political means (often involving limited access to communist party membership), while in Austria women's professional advancement was affected by limited access to educational institutions and the labor market. Fodor discusses the legacies of Austria's and Hungary's "gender regimes" following the demise of state socialism and during the process of integration into the European Union.

Book The Liberated Female h

Download or read book The Liberated Female h written by Ivan Volgyes and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1977-09-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hungarian Women  Dating  Marriage  Characteristics and Tips

Download or read book Hungarian Women Dating Marriage Characteristics and Tips written by John Williams and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book you will learn lots of specific information about Hungarian girls and women, their character, what they like and how to behave if you would like to date or marry Hungarian lady. But this is only brief description. You will find useful tips about dating in Hungary, approaching local women and how competitive you are comparing to local men. You will also find pieces of interesting life stories with valuable shared experience as well. Simple guide to know Hungarian women better!

Book Hedy s Journey

Download or read book Hedy s Journey written by Michelle Bisson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1941. Hedy and her family are Jewish, and the Jew-hating Nazi party is rising. Hedy's family is no longer safe in their home in Hungary. They decide to flee to America, but because of their circumstances, sixteen-year-old Hedy must make her way through Europe alone. Will luck be with her? Will she be brave? Join Hedy on her journey-where she encounters good fortune and misfortune, a kind helper and cruel soldiers, a reunion and a tragedy-and discover how Hedy is both lucky and brave. Hedy's Journey adds an important voice to the canon of Holocaust stories, and her courage will make a lasting impact on young readers.

Book A Taste of the Past

Download or read book A Taste of the Past written by András Koerner and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated re-creation of Jewish Hungarian cuisine and life in the nineteenth century.

Book Women   s Literary Tradition and Twentieth Century Hungarian Writers

Download or read book Women s Literary Tradition and Twentieth Century Hungarian Writers written by Anna Menyhért and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women’s Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers, Anna Menyhért examines the work and reception of five 20th century Hungarian women writers excluded from the canon, and argues that including them will reinstate important cultural memory and inspire young, female, aspiring writers.

Book Freax

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tamás, Polgár
  • Publisher : CSW-Verlag
  • Release : 2016-04-17
  • ISBN : 3941287974
  • Pages : 521 pages

Download or read book Freax written by Tamás, Polgár and published by CSW-Verlag. This book was released on 2016-04-17 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FREAX – the biggest book ever written about the history of the computer demoscene. The book tells the complete history of the Commodore 64 and the Amiga, both about the machines and about the underground subcultures around them, from the cracker- and warez-scene to the demoscene, from hacking and phreaking to the ASCII art scene. Interviews with scene celebrities, former key persons of the computer industry, citations from contemporary magazines and fanzines make the narrative history of the big adventure complete. The book contains 350 pages and is illustrated with 480 color photos and screenshots. This is the comprehensive guide to the golden era of home computers.

Book Burning Horses

Download or read book Burning Horses written by Agatha Hoff and published by Sweet Earth Flying Press, LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Agatha Hoff's reconstruction of her mother's life is based on Eva Leopold Badic's writings, the many discussions between both of them, and Agatha's childhood memories. The story is told as if Eva herself were telling it"--P. 12.

Book Melancholy

    Book Details:
  • Author : László F. Földényi (Foldenyi)
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-04-26
  • ISBN : 0300220693
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Melancholy written by László F. Földényi (Foldenyi) and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.” Földényi’s extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition, explores many centuries to explore melancholy’s ambiguities. Along the way Földényi discovers the unrecognized role melancholy may play as a source of energy and creativity in a well-examined life. Földényi begins with a tour of the history of the word melancholy, from ancient Greece to the medieval era, the Renaissance, and modern times. He finds the meaning of melancholy has always been ambiguous, even paradoxical. In our own times it may be regarded either as a psychic illness or a mood familiar to everyone. The author analyzes the complexities of melancholy and concludes that its dual nature reflects the inherent tension of birth and mortality. To understand the melancholic disposition is to find entry to some of the deepest questions one’s life. This distinguished translation brings Földényi’s work directly to English-language readers for the first time.

Book Screen Memories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Portuges
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780253207821
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Screen Memories written by Catherine Portuges and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... excellent... " --Slavic Review "... displays a depth of scholarship and breadth of research which in the main is distilled into a fascinating read. At last Mészáros is getting the attention she deserves." --Sight and Sound "Drawing on personal reminiscences, interviews with Meszaros, and critiques of individual films, Portuges delineates in detailed and convincing fashion the cultural contradictions surrounding Meszaros and her art." --Signs "This book provides engaging insight to works by one of Hungary's best contemporary filmmakers, Márta Mészáros." --Canadian Slavonic Papers A fascinating exploration of the culture of post-Stalinist Eastern Europe through a detailed study of the achievements of its foremost woman director--and revealing interviews with the filmmaker and her collaborators. Márta Mészáros's visual representations of youth, sexual difference, and class conflict challenged official socialist versions of gender, family relations, and workers' lives. Her films include documentaries and features and the recently completed Diary of My Father and Mother.