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Book Review: Graf János Esterházy: Führer der ungarischen Minderheit und das Schicksal der Ungarn in der Tschechoslowakei/Slowakei nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg

Book Review: Graf János Esterházy: Führer der ungarischen Minderheit und das Schicksal der Ungarn... BOOK REVIEWS 211 Szent-Ivany, Gabor. Grafjdnos Esterhdzy: Ftihrer der ungarischenMinderheitund das Schicksal der Ungarn in der Tschechoslowakei/Slowakei nach dem Ersten Welt- krieg. Ed. Alice Esterhazy-Malfatti. Vienna: Bohlau, 1995. Pp. 266, maps, illus. 6S 476, DM 68. Gdbor Szent-Ivany's book is one of three works on Count Janos Esterhazy to be pub- lished in the last few years, revealing a renewed interest in the leader of the Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia. Esterhazy, the only representative in the Slovak parliament to vote against the deportation of the Jews in 1942, was branded as a fascist by the postwar Czechoslovak regime and spent the last years of his life in prison, where he died in 1957. (See also Ladislav Deak, Political Profile ofjdnos Esterhdzy [1995], and Imre Molnar, Esterhdzy Jdnos, 1901-1957 [1997].) Szent-Ivdny's work, the fruit of long years of research, aims for the improvement of Slovak-Hungarian relations through the clarification of misunderstandings over their common past, focusing on Esterhazy as a defender of the Hungarian minority and as a man who was dedicated to the achievement of peaceful coexistence between Slovaks and Hungarians. The manuscript, published after the author's death, was ed- ited by Alice Esterhazy-Malfatti, daughter of Count http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press

Book Review: Graf János Esterházy: Führer der ungarischen Minderheit und das Schicksal der Ungarn in der Tschechoslowakei/Slowakei nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg

Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 31: 2 – Feb 10, 2009
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Cambridge University Press
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2000
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0067-2378
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10.1017/S0067237800014661
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BOOK REVIEWS 211 Szent-Ivany, Gabor. Grafjdnos Esterhdzy: Ftihrer der ungarischenMinderheitund das Schicksal der Ungarn in der Tschechoslowakei/Slowakei nach dem Ersten Welt- krieg. Ed. Alice Esterhazy-Malfatti. Vienna: Bohlau, 1995. Pp. 266, maps, illus. 6S 476, DM 68. Gdbor Szent-Ivany's book is one of three works on Count Janos Esterhazy to be pub- lished in the last few years, revealing a renewed interest in the leader of the Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia. Esterhazy, the only representative in the Slovak parliament to vote against the deportation of the Jews in 1942, was branded as a fascist by the postwar Czechoslovak regime and spent the last years of his life in prison, where he died in 1957. (See also Ladislav Deak, Political Profile ofjdnos Esterhdzy [1995], and Imre Molnar, Esterhdzy Jdnos, 1901-1957 [1997].) Szent-Ivdny's work, the fruit of long years of research, aims for the improvement of Slovak-Hungarian relations through the clarification of misunderstandings over their common past, focusing on Esterhazy as a defender of the Hungarian minority and as a man who was dedicated to the achievement of peaceful coexistence between Slovaks and Hungarians. The manuscript, published after the author's death, was ed- ited by Alice Esterhazy-Malfatti, daughter of Count

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