Americans from Hungary

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AMERICANS FROM
A colorful, vibrant stfry of the Hungarian-
American colony, beginning with Hungary's
history and folklore arid including a report
of Hungarian participation in American civil
affairs, religion, literature, science, education,
and the arts.
by 8mil Cengyel
Although the folk memory of Hungary is ori-
ental, beginning when Magyar hosts crossed the
Carpathians in the ninth century A.D., the history
of the Hungarian people has many parallels with
our own. Spurred by their light for independence
in 1848, when Lajos Kossuth led an unsuccessful
revolt against the Hapsburgs, waves of Hungar-
ians began to come to America, reaching a high
point in numbers shortly before World War I,
when nearly two million immigrants had reached
these shores to settle mostly in Ohio, New Jersey,
New York, and Pennsylvania. These people, as
individuals and as groups, played vital roles in
American industry, in the American theatre, in
music, literature, and painting—and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

AMERICANS FROM
A colorful, vibrant stfry of the Hungarian-
American colony, beginning with Hungary's
history and folklore arid including a report
of Hungarian participation in American civil
affairs, religion, literature, science, education,
and the arts.
by 8mil Cengyel
Although the folk memory of Hungary is ori-
ental, beginning when Magyar hosts crossed the
Carpathians in the ninth century A.D., the history
of the Hungarian people has many parallels with
our own. Spurred by their light for independence
in 1848, when Lajos Kossuth led an unsuccessful
revolt against the Hapsburgs, waves of Hungar-
ians began to come to America, reaching a high
point in numbers shortly before World War I,
when nearly two million immigrants had reached
these shores to settle mostly in Ohio, New Jersey,
New York, and Pennsylvania. These people, as
individuals and as groups, played vital roles in
American industry, in the American theatre, in
music, literature, and painting—and in the ex-
panding motion picture industry.
Budapest-born Emil Lengyel tells the story of
these Americans from Hungary, giving an elo-
quent analysis of their antecedents, weaknesses,
strong points, contributions, and temperament.
With warmth and humor, he shows how they
lived, what they thought, and how courage, char-
acter and talent carried them from the periphery
of American life to its center. In a remarkably
revealing chapter, he brings the picture into clear
focus by tracing the experiences of John Szabo, a
Hungarian John Doe, as he broke through the
limitations of his immigrant status to the free air
of American citizenship with a family, house, and
car of his own.
The list of outstanding Hungarian-Americans is
long—including John Smith, the principal founder
of Virginia, Joseph Pulitzer, Adolph Zukor and
others in many fields—and their contributions are
important. Americans from Hungary is a rich
mosaic of an influential segment of our people,
with an evaluation of the part this segment has
played in American culture and economy, and with
this book Mr. Lengyel performs a distinct service
both for his fellow Hungarian-Americans and for
his adopted country.
Americans from Hungary is the second title to
be published in The Peoples of America Series,
under the general editorship of Louis Adamic. In
preparation since 1943, the series tells the story of
the United States in terms of the various popula-
tion groups who live here and who have shaped
the course of its history. Each book in the series
is „written by an author carefully selected on the
basis of his special personal and professional quali-
fications . The titles listed below are those now
prepared, assigned, or in preparation, with an-
nouncement of additions to the list to be made
from time to time. Vissza