Hungarian project : oral histories, 1974-1993.

Scope and Contents

This project contains personal recollections of Hungarian immigrants active in the arts, politics, and international relations. The experience of immigration to the U.S. and adjustment to the American cultural milieu is discussed; their contributions to the arts, as well as commercial and professional accomplishments are enumerated. Impressions of teachers and colleagues such as Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, and Beniamino Gigli offer a picture of their European heritage Participants and pagination of transcripts: Robert Austerlitz; Anne Beothy-Steiner; S. Maria Berenyi; Gabor Carelli, 119; Tadeusz Celt, 48; Alfons Weiss De Csepel, 29; Tibor de Nagy, 28; Eugene De Thassy, 54; Ilma De Szily, 33; Evelyn A. Domjan, 31; Joseph Domjan, 18; Anny Ehrenwald, 23; Ervin Farkas, 15; George Feyer, 39; Vera Freeman; Gabriel D. Hackett, 40; Elemer Hantos, Jr., 25; Robert L. Harkay, 27; Lucien Herve, 49; Otto Herz, 112; Pal Hevesy; George Jellinek, 30; Paul Kovesdy, 35; Abel Lajtha, 47; Livia Lengyel, 19; Margaret Mahler, 17; Elisabeth Marton, 71; Hanna Mikes, 18; Marian Mikolajczyk, 24; Ildiko Mohacsy, 15; Julian Nagy, 100; Remig A. Papp, 29; Raphael Patai, 57; Laszlo Pathy, 52; Hannah Peto, 18; Alexander Reinhardt, 28; Gyorgy Sandor, 43; Janos Scholz, 31; Janos Starker; Marcel Stein, 19; Rose Stein, 9; Ivan K. Strausz, 10; Alexander Szent-Ivanyi, 127; Charles Szladits, 56; Bela Varga, 219; Margit Varro, 10; Marina von Neumann Whitman, 20; Peter Zerkowitz, 32; Piroska Barczy Zilahy, 61

Subjects

• Emigration and immigration.
• Hungarian Americans--Interviews.
• Hungary--Civilization.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Civilization--Hungarian influences.