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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 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 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 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 The Tenth Child

Download or read book The Tenth Child written by Julianna Withey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a powerful story of Julianna, the tenth child of poor Hungarian peasants, whose life spread through the most challenging and tragic historical milestones of twentieth century Europe: Second World War, Nazi occupation of Hungary, Communist Crackdown, and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Julianna's courage and determination will inspire and touch the hearts of the readers as she shares with them the wonderful, fascinating details of her life which was completely different from those of most Americans. She conveys those historical events through her own experiences, the way they had affected and altered her childhood and eventually her entire life. Through her voice the reader will find Julianna's heart and soul that endured all the explosions of bombs, hunger and nerve-breaking fright when Hungary became the battleground between withdrawing Nazis and the Red Army. Her courage was really put to the test when after the Russian tanks brutally crushed the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 she crawled through a minefield in the dark, then on her stomach inched across a bridge, and under a hail of border guards' bullets ran for her life to reach Austria, and finally the land of her childhood dream, America.

Book Roots and Routes

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9789176232996
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book Roots and Routes written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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   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 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 Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis

Download or read book Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis written by Anna Borgos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the life, scholarly oeuvre and intellectual connections of the significant "first generation" Hungarian female psychoanalysts, situating their lives within the wider context of social history and the history of psychoanalysis. Budapest was one of the main centres of psychoanalysis in the early 20th century – in a period which was also central regarding women’s changing roles and possibilities. Favourable social circumstances met a new, freshly developing profession’s need for receptive followers regardless of their sex. This book shines a light on the social and professional factors on the life and work of these first women psychoanalysts, examining documentary evidence of their lives and drawing upon the literature of psychoanalysis, social history, and gender studies. Through their life stories, not only the history of psychoanalysis, but also the processes of 20th-century women’s history and social-political developments in Hungary and the region can be reconstructed. Key psychoanalysts explored include Lilly Hajdu, Edit Gyömrői, Alice Bálint, Vilma Kovács, Lillián Rotter and twelve further women analysts. This important book will be of interest to researchers in gender studies, the history of psychoanalysis, women’s and gender history, and Eastern European history.

Book Hungarian Jewish Women Survivors Remember the Holocaust

Download or read book Hungarian Jewish Women Survivors Remember the Holocaust written by Ilana Rosen and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents memoirs by 17 female Hungarian-speaking Holocaust survivors on their experiences during the war in Hungary, Transylvania, and Ruthenia. The accounts were transcribed from interviews conducted in the 1990s, mainly in Israel.

Book A Guest in My Own Country

Download or read book A Guest in My Own Country written by George Konrad and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & Memoir A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals. When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the Hungarian countryside the day before deportations swept through his home town. Ultimately, they were the only Jewish children of the town to survive the Holocaust. A Guest in My Own Country recalls the life of one of Eastern Europe's most accomplished modern writers, beginning with his survival during the final months of the war. Konrad captures the dangers, the hopes, the betrayals and courageous acts of the period through a series of carefully chosen episodes that occasionally border on the surreal (as when a dead German soldier begins to speak, attempting to justify his actions). The end of the war launches the young man on a remarkable career in letters and politics. Offering lively descriptions of both his private and public life in Budapest, New York, and Berlin, Konrad reflects insightfully on his role in the Hungarian Uprising, the notion of "internal emigration" – the fate of many writers who, like Konrad, refused to leave the Eastern Bloc under socialism – and other complexities of European identity. To read A Guest in My Own Country is to experience the recent history of East-Central Europe from the inside.

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 The Hungarian Girl Trap

Download or read book The Hungarian Girl Trap written by Ray Dexter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Boy meets girl. Boy is English, girl Hungarian: boy has a good job at a very well-known boarding school in England; girl is an au pair who wants to get back to Hungary as soon as possible. Boy descovers he knows a man who is running an International school in Hungary and he is desperate for boy to work for him. Boy decides you can't fight that sort of coincidence, chucks in the good job at the well-known boarding school and follows the girl to Budapest ... This is a book about real life in one of Europe's most fascinating cities. Ray Dexter shows us deep inside the Hungarian soul and also inside the minds of the expats who have also ended up in the Hungarian Girl Trap"--P. [4] of cover.

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 In the Darkroom

Download or read book In the Darkroom written by Susan Faludi and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age. “In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger who had skipped out on so many things—obligation, affection, culpability, contrition. I was preparing an indictment, amassing discovery for a trial. But somewhere along the line, the prosecutor became a witness.” So begins Susan Faludi’s extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga. When the feminist writer learned that her 76-year-old father—long estranged and living in Hungary—had undergone sex reassignment surgery, that investigation would turn personal and urgent. How was this new parent who identified as “a complete woman now” connected to the silent, explosive, and ultimately violent father she had known, the photographer who’d built his career on the alteration of images? Faludi chases that mystery into the recesses of her suburban childhood and her father’s many previous incarnations: American dad, Alpine mountaineer, swashbuckling adventurer in the Amazon outback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. When the author travels to Hungary to reunite with her father, she drops into a labyrinth of dark histories and dangerous politics in a country hell-bent on repressing its past and constructing a fanciful—and virulent—nationhood. The search for identity that has transfixed our century was proving as treacherous for nations as for individuals. Faludi’s struggle to come to grips with her father’s metamorphosis takes her across borders—historical, political, religious, sexual--to bring her face to face with the question of the age: Is identity something you “choose,” or is it the very thing you can’t escape?