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Book Review: The Once and Future Budapest

Book Review: The Once and Future Budapest BOOK REVIEWS Th e lone fi ghter Oscár Jászi has found a worthy biographer in György Litván, who in 1956 was the fi rst person in Hungary to denounce publicly the Stalinist tyrant Mátyás Rákosi, and who, aft er the suppres- sion of the 1956 revolution, suff ered imprisonment for three years. Until his death in November 2006, Litván was director emeritus of the Budapest Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution; for him, Oscar Jászi was a nearly life-long preoccupation. His new book is based on the latter’s volumi- nous newspaper and journal articles and on his prodigious correspondence, which is held in part at the National Library in Budapest and in part at the Rare Books and Manuscript Library at Columbia Univer- sity. Litván’s familiarity with every aspect of Oscar Jászi’s life might even have become a slight drawback, causing him occasionally to include too many details. Oscar Jászi was born in 1875 in what then was east central Hungary and what is today Romania; his middle-class Jewish family fi rst magyarized their name, then converted to Christianity, going so far as to change the boy’s birth certifi cate to appear as if he had http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press

Book Review: The Once and Future Budapest

Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 38: 2 – Jan 18, 2010
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Cambridge University Press
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2007
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0067-2378
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10.1017/S0067237800021573
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BOOK REVIEWS Th e lone fi ghter Oscár Jászi has found a worthy biographer in György Litván, who in 1956 was the fi rst person in Hungary to denounce publicly the Stalinist tyrant Mátyás Rákosi, and who, aft er the suppres- sion of the 1956 revolution, suff ered imprisonment for three years. Until his death in November 2006, Litván was director emeritus of the Budapest Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution; for him, Oscar Jászi was a nearly life-long preoccupation. His new book is based on the latter’s volumi- nous newspaper and journal articles and on his prodigious correspondence, which is held in part at the National Library in Budapest and in part at the Rare Books and Manuscript Library at Columbia Univer- sity. Litván’s familiarity with every aspect of Oscar Jászi’s life might even have become a slight drawback, causing him occasionally to include too many details. Oscar Jászi was born in 1875 in what then was east central Hungary and what is today Romania; his middle-class Jewish family fi rst magyarized their name, then converted to Christianity, going so far as to change the boy’s birth certifi cate to appear as if he had

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Published: Jan 18, 2010

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