Hungarian Studies Review Spring-Fall, 2003 [antikvár]

Preface: The United States and Hungary, Hungary and the United States N. F. Dreisziger The United States and Hungary, Hungary and the United States, Americans and Hungarians, Hungarians and Americans: these might all be appropriate titles for this collection of essays. We began preparations for the publication of such a volume three years ago. In time it became evident that we had material at hand to fill more than one volume. It also became clear that some of that material would not be ready to go to print till the second half of 2004. Accordingly, we decided to split the project into two and publish the papers, review articles, etc. that had come in by the end of 2003, in this volume and leave the rest for a future one. The appearance of a scholarly compendium dedicated to the subject of the interaction of the United States and Hungary, of Americans and Hungarians, of the government of the U.S. and Hungarians in America and in Hungary, is both timely and appropriate. Only recently, the U.S. and Hungary, officially enemies throughout much of the twend-eth century, had become allies when Hungary became a member of the NATO alliance. Further, despite the appearance in recent years of two major works on the history of the Hungarian community of the United States, the literature on our wider subject remains woefully limited. It is this lacuna that we hope to help fill with our present volume, and the one that will follow soon. From the time of the creation of the American Republic to our days multiple levels and forms of interrelationship existed between the U.S. and Hungary. At first the Republic acted as a model of a state and society that was admired by many Hungarian intellectuals and even some