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- Nadkarni, Maya, 1970- author.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource
- Summary
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- Introduction
- 1. Banishing Remains
- 2. The Hole in the Flag
- 3. Nostalgia and the Remains of Everyday Life
- 4. Recovering National Victimhood at the House of Terror
- 5. Secrets, Inheritance, and a Generation's Remains
- 6. A Past Returned, A Future Deferred Conclusion.
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- Trnka, Susanna, author.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource
- Summary
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- Introduction: Movement, Technology, and Culture in the Making of (Czech) Lives
- 1. Footsteps through the City: Social Justice in Its Multiplicity
- 2. Digital Dwelling: The Everyday Freedoms of Technology Use
- 3. Ballroom Dance and Other Technologies of Sexuality and Desire
- 4. The New Europeans: Twenty-First-Century Families as Sites for Self-Realization
- 5. Making Moods: Food and Drink as Collective Acts of Sustenance, Pleasure, and Dissolution
- 6. Reconnection: Between the Power Lines and the Stars.
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- Madrid : Iberoamericana ; Frankfurt am Main : Vervuert, 2019.
- Description
- Book — 415 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
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- Barwicka-Makula, Aleksandra, author.
- Wydanie I. - Katowice : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2019
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- Book — 366 pages ; 24 cm
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5. Orbán : un despota in Europa [2019]
- Bottoni, Stefano, author.
- Roma : Salerno editrice, [2019]
- Description
- Book — 303 pages
- Summary
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Chi è, come ragiona e come governa l'uomo che ha trasformato il suo paese nel primo laboratorio illiberale dell'Unione Europea? Che cosa ha permesso a un politico di formazione progressista di diventare il simbolo delle destre sovraniste? Viktor Orbán si presenta come leader alternativo per l'Europa e sfida la classe dirigente occidentale sul tema del multiculturalismo. Al tempo stesso, ha costruito e gestisce un sistema corrotto e dai tratti feudali, autoritario ma basato su un ampio consenso popolare
Un sistema oggetto di critiche internazionali ma tollerato e anzi finanziato dall'Unione Europea. La parabola del primo ministro ungherese dagli anni Ottanta a oggi trascende la dimensione biografica del personaggio. La sua storia riflette la crisi generale della rappresentanza democratica e illustra gli errori di prospettiva commessi dalle élites liberali e dalle politiche di Bruxelles, corresponsabili del deragliamento autoritario nell'Europa dell'Est, dove il populismo pragmatico ha un nome e un volto: quello del despota Orbán. [Testo dell'editore]
- Online
- Budapest : CEU Press, Central European University Press : National Széchényi Library, [2018]
- Description
- Book — xliii, 435 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM.
- Summary
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- General Editors' Preface
- The Chronicle of the Deeds of the Hungarians in European Context (Norbert Kersken)
- Abbreviations
- Abbreviations and signs in text and annotations
- Titles cited in abbreviation
- List of illustrations and tables
- Annotated list of miniatures and medallions
- Editors' Preface
- Chronica De Gestis Hungarorum
- Chronicle of The Deeds of The Hungarians
- Appendix
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Names of Persons, Kindreds and Peoples
- Index of Geographical Names
- Gazetteer for Geographical Names.
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7. A history of the Czech lands [2018]
- Pánek, Jaroslav, author, editor.
- Second edition. - [Prague, Czech Republic] : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, [2018]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource.
8. A history of the Czech lands [2018]
- Pánek, Jaroslav, author, editor.
- Second edition. - [Prague, Czech Republic] : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, [2018]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource.
- O'Sullivan, Michael, 1957- author.
- Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2018.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (vi, 294 pages)
- Summary
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- Budapest
- Across the Alföld: The Great Hungarian Plain
- The Banat
- Transylvania.
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- O'Sullivan, Michael, 1957- author.
- Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2018.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (vi, 294 pages)
- Summary
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- Budapest
- Across the Alföld: The Great Hungarian Plain
- The Banat
- Transylvania.
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11. Remembering cold days : the 1942 massacre of Novi Sad, Hungarian politics, and society, 1942-1989 [2018]
- Klimó, Árpád von, author.
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Summary
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- Part I. Violence and revenge, 1942-1948. The 1942 massacre of Novi Sad
- "Disloyalty": the Budapest military trial and the Holocaust
- Revenge: the first postwar trials. Part II. From silencing to site of memory, 1949-1989. Postwar: the long Stalinist decade
- Fascists with a human face? The 1960s novel and film Cold Days
- The victims of mass violence and the end of the communist regime.
12. Studies on The illuminated chronicle [2018]
- Budapest : Central European University Press : National Széchényi Library, [2018]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource
- Summary
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- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Preface; Orsolya Karsay: The Codex of the Illuminated Chronicle; János M. Bak and Ryszard Grzesik: The Text of the ""Chronicle of the deeds of the Hungarians; Ernő Marosi: The Illuminations of the Illuminated Chronicle; György Rácz: The Heraldry of Angevin-age Hungary and its Reflections in the Illuminated Chronicle; Martyn Rady: Attila and the Hun Tradition in Hungarian Medieval Texts; Dániel Bagi: The Dynastic Conflicts of the Eleventh Century in the Illuminated Chronicle
- Kornél Szovák: The Image of the Ideal King in Twelfth-Century Hungary (Remarks on the Legend of St. Ladislas and the Illuminated Chronicle)Balázs Kertész: The Afterlife of the Fourteenth-Century Chronicle Compositions; Credits; Index nominum; Back cover
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- Nagy, Zsolt, 1973- author.
- Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2017.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xvii, 341 pages)
- Summary
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- Mobilizing the nation : from war propaganda to peacetime cultural diplomacy and beyond
- Defining the nation
- Educating international public opinion : cultural institutions and scholarly publications
- Showcasing the nation : the role of tourism
- Becoming audible and visible : radio broadcasting and cinematic production in the service of cultural diplomacy.
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- Apor, Balázs, author.
- Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2017.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xiv, 388 pages)
- Summary
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- Introduction: The Stalinist leader cult : origins, interpretations, and functions
- Part I. The construction of the cult
- The chronology of cult construction (1925-1953)
- The institutions and agents of cult construction
- "The biography is a very serious issue" : the role of biographies in constructing the Rákosi cult
- "He was created by a thousand years" : nationalism and the leader cult
- "Comrade Rákosi lives with us" : the visual and the spatial aspects of the Rákosi cult
- Part II. Responses to the cult's expansion
- "Love for Comrade Rákosi has become deeper" : the communicative influence of the cult
- "Death to Uncle Rákosi!" : negative perceptions of the cult
- Ignorance is bliss : popular indifference and the shortcomings of communist propaganda
- Part III. The dismantling of the cult
- The "new course" and the decay of the Rákosi cult, 1953-1956
- The collapse of the Rákosi cult.
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15. La Rivoluzione ungherese del 1956 e l'Italia [2017]
- Rivoluzione ungherese del 1956 e l'Italia (Conference) (2016 : Rome, Italy)
- Soveria Mannelli : Rubbettino, [2017]
- Description
- Book — 188 pages : illustrations (some color)
- Summary
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Il volume raccoglie i testi delle relazioni tenute al congresso internazionale «La Rivoluzione ungherese del 1956 e l'Italia», organizzato dall'Accademia d'Ungheria in Roma. In apertura figurano due saggi incentrati su due aspetti dell'incontro della società italiana con il 1956 ungherese. La seconda sezione del volume indaga le discussioni che si accesero all'interno del Partito comunista italiano e nell'ambiente degli intellettuali di sinistra in seguito alla rivolta d'Ungheria. Nella terza sezione degli atti hanno trovato collocazione due analisi dell'influsso esercitato dalla rivoluzione del 1956 sulle strategie di politica estera del governo italiano e della Santa Sede. I due saggi che chiudono il volume analizzano il posto occupato dalla rivoluzione nella memoria storica e culturale. [Testo dell'editore]
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- Swanson, John C. (John Charles), author.
- Pittsburg : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xxiii, 456 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
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- A rural world, before 1918
- Cultural contact, post 1918
- Minority making, 1920s
- A unique identity, 1930s
- The volk triumphant, Second World War
- Return to minority, 1945-1993.
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- Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY, USA : Central European University Press in association with Noran Libro, 2017.
- Description
- Book — xi, 662 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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18. Workers and nationalism : Czech and German social democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890-1918 [2017]
- Beneš, Jakub S. author.
- First edition. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Description
- Book — x, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Summary
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Internationalist socialism and ethnic nationalism are usually thought of as polar opposites. But for the millions of men and women who made Social Democracy into twentieth-century Europe's most potent political force, they were often mutually reinforcing. Workers and Nationalism explains this apparent paradox by looking at the history of the Social Democratic workers' movement in Habsburg Austria, which was built on the mobilization of German and Czech workers in the Empire's rapidly industrializing regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and Lower Austria. Jakub Benes takes the history of socialism out of the realm of theoretical and parliamentary debates and into the streets, city squares, pubs, and clubs of a vibrant but precarious multi-ethnic society. He reveals how ordinary workers became increasingly nationalist as they came to believe that they were the genuine representatives of their ethnic national communities. Their successful campaign to democratize parliamentary elections in 1905-1907 accelerated such thinking rapidly. It also split Social Democracy apart by 1911. Then, during the First World War, many Czech and German workers embraced revolutionary radicalism, alienating them from the regime-friendly socialist leadership. Benes's study is the first to show the profound connection between major political events and the rich culture of the Austrian workers' movement, revealing this culture's utopian and quasi-religious tendencies as well as its left populist nationalism. Based on research in eight archives and numerous libraries in Prague, Vienna, and Brno, Workers and Nationalism fundamentally rethinks the relationship between socialism, nationalism, and democracy in modern Europe.
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- Nemes, Robert, author.
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.
- Description
- Book — xii, 292 pages ; 24 cm.
- Summary
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- Contents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThe introduction describes the genesis of the book, establishes the historical questions it addresses, points to the answers to come, and situates this work in the historiography of Central and Eastern Europe. Most importantly, it makes the case for collective biography, which is the most innovative feature of this book. The introduction also defines the main features of northeastern Hungary and stresses what is gained by viewing nineteenth-century history from the vantage point of this poor, remote region. Drawing on Benedict Anderson and Edward Said, it closes with reflections on the "imagined geography" as an analytical framework that captures the mixture of acute observations and bold visions of change offered by the eight men and women examined here.
- 1The Aristocrat chapter abstractThe subject of the first
- chapter is Count Jozsef Gvadanyi, an aristocrat of Italian origins who spent forty years as a cavalry officer before becoming a prolific author in his sixties. Largely forgotten today, Gvadanyi was one of the most popular authors of the 1790s. He churned out biographies, military studies, and long, narrative poems. An analysis of the poetry reveals Gvadanyi to be a careful observer of northeastern Hungary. The count was supportive of upward mobility through education and largely sympathetic to the diverse peoples who lived in the region (although Jews have no place in his literary landscapes). In this way, Gvadanyi's writings begin to construct the "myth of the provinces": namely, the belief that Hungary had great untapped economic potential and that its different peoples lived in relative harmony. Later chapters take apart and add to this myth.
- 2The Merchant chapter abstractThe second chapter drops from the top of the social pyramid to near the bottom, to a Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrant from Poland. Rafael Kastenbaum came to Hungary as a young man and worked as a merchant and moneylender in northeastern Hungary. Kastenbaum left behind few biographical documents. But when he died, his will showed him to be much wealthier and much more generous than anyone had suspected. A reconstruction of Kastenbaum's life shows the precarious position of Jews in provincial Hungary, just as his will's surprising bequests reveal the era's faith in education and the importance of local political coalitions (in this case the county nobility and Jewish elites) to achieve change.
- 3The Engineer chapter abstractHopes for the dramatic economic transformation of provincial Hungary defined the life of Pal Vasarhelyi. Born into a poor noble family, Vasarhelyi became a water engineer, an occupation with great responsibility but limited social status and low pay. In this capacity Vasarhelyi spent long years on the Danube and Tisza Rivers. His writings encompass technical reports, pamphlets on water measurement, newspaper articles, and published speeches. In unguarded moments, Vasarhelyi let his imagination fly and dreamed of using river regulation to solve the economic, transportation, and social problems that beset the provinces. Vasarhelyi's plans were not fully realized, but they sketch a very different "imagined geography" of Hungary, which centered on the northeastern counties rather than on Budapest.
- 4The Teacher chapter abstractEconomic issues give way to national questions with Klara Loevei, whose noble family had also fallen on hard times. As a woman, she had fewer options than Vasarhelyi. Undaunted, Loevei explored nearly all the career paths open to women of her era (actress, governess, teacher) before becoming in turn a revolutionary, political prisoner, and journalist. Letters, memoirs, and newspaper articles document her remarkable career. These sources can help us understand the roles played by women in provincial society and the importance of education as a means of individual and collective change. Finally, Loevei's pronounced Hungarian national loyalty illuminates what nationalism meant in an ethnically mixed border region.
- 5The Journalist chapter abstractThis chapter also looks at nationalism, but this time from a Romanian point of view. Iosif Vulcan was descended from one of the most prestigious Romanian families in Austria-Hungary. He wrote plays, novels, and poetry-- he championed Romanian-language theater-- and he edited the journal The Family for nearly forty years. Scholars often view him as a Romanian national activist-- this chapter asks what is gained if we see him as a provincial one. An examination of Vulcan's career shows the development of the public sphere (newspapers, books, associations) in the provinces. It also expands the argument (begun in previous chapters) about how nationalism worked on the ground in ethnically and religiously diverse regions.
- 6The Rabbi chapter abstractWhat role did religion play in public life? What about antisemitism? How did Jews respond to pressures to adopt the language and customs of the majority Christian society? Answers to these questions emerge from the life of Rabbi Armin Schnitzer, who grew up in northeastern Hungary but later settled in a small town in western Hungary. Schnitzer published a memoir, as well as speeches, sermons, and newspaper articles. In them we can see how Schnitzer tried to define a Jewish identity that fused Hungarian patriotism, imperial loyalty, and a measure of Zionism. They also show how Schnitzer used the local press, the town council, and networks of friends to respond to statewide crises, including the Tiszaeszlar ritual murder case in the 1880s and the battle over civil marriage in the 1890s. From this perspective, local political institutions appear much more vibrant and viable than is often assumed.
- 7The Tobacconist chapter abstractThis chapter moves into the Hungarian countryside and looks at agriculture, the engine of the economy, albeit one that sometimes raced and sometimes sputtered and stalled. It focuses on Vilmos Daroczi, a Jew who grew up in a small village and eventually made his way to Budapest. Daroczi worked as a tobacco grower, tobacco buyer, and for the last quarter-century of his life, editor of a newspaper devoted to tobacco cultivation. The northeastern counties figured prominently in Daroczi's thinking, as he dreamed of remaking the rural society from which he had emerged. Daroczi's work can help us think about Hungary's place in the global economy, about economic forces remaking the countryside, and about the connections between patriotism and consumption.
- 8The Writer chapter abstractMargit Kaffka grew up just a dozen miles from where Daroczi was born. Yet she did not share his optimism about the countryside. The daughter of yet another poor Hungarian nobleman, Kaffka eked out a living as a teacher and writer, first in a small town and then in Budapest. From there she looked back in anger on the Hungarian provinces. Her great novel Colors and Years (1912) examined the disintegration of the provincial nobility and documented its effects on women. To Kaffka, the provinces' social order was feudal, its Hungarian nationalism hollow, and its local politics corrupt. And yet, her work does offer a path forward that led through - rather than away from - the provinces. In this way, Kaffka retained something of the "myth of the provinces, " even as she insightfully diagnosed its woes.
- Conclusion chapter abstractThe conclusion highlights the common themes that join the lives of these men and women: their mobility, education, political engagement, professional achievements, social networks, and local loyalties. It documents how differently these men and women have been remembered, from the house museum of "the journalist" to the vanished grave of "the merchant." Most importantly, the conclusion answers the questions laid out in the introduction and pursued in the eight body chapters, emphasizing the innovative responses of some men and women to larger historical changes, the complex role played by ideologies in the countryside, and the shifting relationship between center and periphery. It closes with a brief reflection on what is gained by looking at history through a collective biography.
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- Nemes, Robert, author.
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
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- Book — 1 online resource
- Summary
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- Contents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThe introduction describes the genesis of the book, establishes the historical questions it addresses, points to the answers to come, and situates this work in the historiography of Central and Eastern Europe. Most importantly, it makes the case for collective biography, which is the most innovative feature of this book. The introduction also defines the main features of northeastern Hungary and stresses what is gained by viewing nineteenth-century history from the vantage point of this poor, remote region. Drawing on Benedict Anderson and Edward Said, it closes with reflections on the "imagined geography" as an analytical framework that captures the mixture of acute observations and bold visions of change offered by the eight men and women examined here.
- 1The Aristocrat chapter abstractThe subject of the first
- chapter is Count Jozsef Gvadanyi, an aristocrat of Italian origins who spent forty years as a cavalry officer before becoming a prolific author in his sixties. Largely forgotten today, Gvadanyi was one of the most popular authors of the 1790s. He churned out biographies, military studies, and long, narrative poems. An analysis of the poetry reveals Gvadanyi to be a careful observer of northeastern Hungary. The count was supportive of upward mobility through education and largely sympathetic to the diverse peoples who lived in the region (although Jews have no place in his literary landscapes). In this way, Gvadanyi's writings begin to construct the "myth of the provinces": namely, the belief that Hungary had great untapped economic potential and that its different peoples lived in relative harmony. Later chapters take apart and add to this myth.
- 2The Merchant chapter abstractThe second chapter drops from the top of the social pyramid to near the bottom, to a Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrant from Poland. Rafael Kastenbaum came to Hungary as a young man and worked as a merchant and moneylender in northeastern Hungary. Kastenbaum left behind few biographical documents. But when he died, his will showed him to be much wealthier and much more generous than anyone had suspected. A reconstruction of Kastenbaum's life shows the precarious position of Jews in provincial Hungary, just as his will's surprising bequests reveal the era's faith in education and the importance of local political coalitions (in this case the county nobility and Jewish elites) to achieve change.
- 3The Engineer chapter abstractHopes for the dramatic economic transformation of provincial Hungary defined the life of Pal Vasarhelyi. Born into a poor noble family, Vasarhelyi became a water engineer, an occupation with great responsibility but limited social status and low pay. In this capacity Vasarhelyi spent long years on the Danube and Tisza Rivers. His writings encompass technical reports, pamphlets on water measurement, newspaper articles, and published speeches. In unguarded moments, Vasarhelyi let his imagination fly and dreamed of using river regulation to solve the economic, transportation, and social problems that beset the provinces. Vasarhelyi's plans were not fully realized, but they sketch a very different "imagined geography" of Hungary, which centered on the northeastern counties rather than on Budapest.
- 4The Teacher chapter abstractEconomic issues give way to national questions with Klara Loevei, whose noble family had also fallen on hard times. As a woman, she had fewer options than Vasarhelyi. Undaunted, Loevei explored nearly all the career paths open to women of her era (actress, governess, teacher) before becoming in turn a revolutionary, political prisoner, and journalist. Letters, memoirs, and newspaper articles document her remarkable career. These sources can help us understand the roles played by women in provincial society and the importance of education as a means of individual and collective change. Finally, Loevei's pronounced Hungarian national loyalty illuminates what nationalism meant in an ethnically mixed border region.
- 5The Journalist chapter abstractThis chapter also looks at nationalism, but this time from a Romanian point of view. Iosif Vulcan was descended from one of the most prestigious Romanian families in Austria-Hungary. He wrote plays, novels, and poetry-- he championed Romanian-language theater-- and he edited the journal The Family for nearly forty years. Scholars often view him as a Romanian national activist-- this chapter asks what is gained if we see him as a provincial one. An examination of Vulcan's career shows the development of the public sphere (newspapers, books, associations) in the provinces. It also expands the argument (begun in previous chapters) about how nationalism worked on the ground in ethnically and religiously diverse regions.
- 6The Rabbi chapter abstractWhat role did religion play in public life? What about antisemitism? How did Jews respond to pressures to adopt the language and customs of the majority Christian society? Answers to these questions emerge from the life of Rabbi Armin Schnitzer, who grew up in northeastern Hungary but later settled in a small town in western Hungary. Schnitzer published a memoir, as well as speeches, sermons, and newspaper articles. In them we can see how Schnitzer tried to define a Jewish identity that fused Hungarian patriotism, imperial loyalty, and a measure of Zionism. They also show how Schnitzer used the local press, the town council, and networks of friends to respond to statewide crises, including the Tiszaeszlar ritual murder case in the 1880s and the battle over civil marriage in the 1890s. From this perspective, local political institutions appear much more vibrant and viable than is often assumed.
- 7The Tobacconist chapter abstractThis chapter moves into the Hungarian countryside and looks at agriculture, the engine of the economy, albeit one that sometimes raced and sometimes sputtered and stalled. It focuses on Vilmos Daroczi, a Jew who grew up in a small village and eventually made his way to Budapest. Daroczi worked as a tobacco grower, tobacco buyer, and for the last quarter-century of his life, editor of a newspaper devoted to tobacco cultivation. The northeastern counties figured prominently in Daroczi's thinking, as he dreamed of remaking the rural society from which he had emerged. Daroczi's work can help us think about Hungary's place in the global economy, about economic forces remaking the countryside, and about the connections between patriotism and consumption.
- 8The Writer chapter abstractMargit Kaffka grew up just a dozen miles from where Daroczi was born. Yet she did not share his optimism about the countryside. The daughter of yet another poor Hungarian nobleman, Kaffka eked out a living as a teacher and writer, first in a small town and then in Budapest. From there she looked back in anger on the Hungarian provinces. Her great novel Colors and Years (1912) examined the disintegration of the provincial nobility and documented its effects on women. To Kaffka, the provinces' social order was feudal, its Hungarian nationalism hollow, and its local politics corrupt. And yet, her work does offer a path forward that led through - rather than away from - the provinces. In this way, Kaffka retained something of the "myth of the provinces, " even as she insightfully diagnosed its woes.
- Conclusion chapter abstractThe conclusion highlights the common themes that join the lives of these men and women: their mobility, education, political engagement, professional achievements, social networks, and local loyalties. It documents how differently these men and women have been remembered, from the house museum of "the journalist" to the vanished grave of "the merchant." Most importantly, the conclusion answers the questions laid out in the introduction and pursued in the eight body chapters, emphasizing the innovative responses of some men and women to larger historical changes, the complex role played by ideologies in the countryside, and the shifting relationship between center and periphery. It closes with a brief reflection on what is gained by looking at history through a collective biography.
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