Hungary is a small landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe. It is about the size of Indiana (35,919 square miles, or 93,030 square kilometers) with twice the latter's population. It is bounded by Slovakia in the north,...

Hungarian1,398,724 Americans[1] 0.5% of the US...

Bela Vardy (Steven Bela Vardy). Magyarok az ujvilagban. Az eszak-amerikai magyarsag rendhagyo tortenete [Hungarians in the New World. An Unorthodox History of HungarianAmericans] (Budapest: A Magyar Nyelv es Kultura Nemzetkozi Tarsasaga, 2000), 840 pp. $17.00 (cloth). For the past two decades, the...

The Other Europeans Touchy East Europeans regularly argue that the reason their literature is not better known in the West has less to do with cultural and linguistic barriers than with the simple fact that the countries of their region don't much...

Today is Sunday, May 6, the 126th day of 2007. There are 239 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a...

It looks like Katherine Oliver, the fancy-footed commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Television, will be heading to the Cannes Film Festival after all. Things weren't looking so good last week, when an e-mail from Ms. Oliver under the subject heading "URGENT...