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FAKING IT, or THE WRONG HUNGARIAN by Gerald Green. 411 pages. Trident...
Ivan Boldizsar, L.H.D., novelist, playwright and executive president of the Hungarian P.E.N. society...
...while in exile in Moscow, was forced by Stalin to denounce his own early works. He survived periodic purges to join in the chorus of denunciation later directed against Stalin. A champion of such Communist heresies as pluralism and literary freedom, Lukács took part in the 1956 Hungarian uprising. He managed to avoid punishment and resumed his teaching and writing under the watchful eye of the pro-Moscow Kádár regime...
...beginning of this century, the waves of immigrants from czarist Russia, Poland and the Austro-Hungarian Empire put a salvationist mark on Israel "as indelible," Elon suggests, "as that imprinted by the Pilgrim Fathers in the early stages of the American Republic." Counting 102 countries of origin for the 2,500,000 Israelis in 1970, the author writes: "Ethnically, Israelis may be a hybrid; as political creatures, they are children of 19th century Europe." Aglow with humanitarian socialism, Zionists also dreamed of a morally perfect society rather than just one more chauvinistic nation-state. They discovered their image of Utopia...
...American of Italian and Hungarian heritage. I am sick of the "oppressing minority." I don't believe you cure a cancer within by denying it exists. There is a Mafia and/or Cosa Nostra...