Rivista di studi ungheresi

Viktor Garády: La letteratura dell’infanzia dell’autore fiumano e il caso del “furto d’autore” di Pinocchio

2026-03-04T14:09:19+00:00

Within children’s literature, which is a vast literary genre it is not always easy to give a precise definition, we find Viktor Garády (Vittorio De Gauss), a writer from Fiume who became a Hungarian citizen and was active between the historical period of the late nineteenth century and the years preceding the Second World War. This study aims to analyse, define and outline, starting from the concept of children’s literature, Garády’s literary work which can be divided into two categories: one purely scientific-didactic and one patriotic-propagandistic, with the idea of Fiume as a Hungarian port at its centre. It also aims to highlight one of his first production of children’s literature: Fajankó. The work it is a clear reference to the story of Pinocchio by our Italian author Collodi, but is never identified as a first Hungarian translation of our work: is it, therefore, a case of plagiarism or a rewritten work? The article wants to identify the similarities and differences also through the comparison of parts of the two works.

Gli atti di mia madre. Le vite parallele di Bruria Avi Shaul tra comunismo e antisionismo

2026-03-04T14:15:47+00:00

The parallel lives of a loving mother, Bruria, an anti-zionist Jew and a fervent communist, married to a secret service informer who, for several years, was also the London correspondent for the Hungarian national news agency MTI, and of “Mrs. Pápai”, her secret identity as an informer herself an informer for the Hungarian secret services, provide a glimpse into a complex historical phase in relations between Hungary and Israel in the book written by Hungarian writer András Forgách No live files remain (Forgách 2016a, original title: Élő kötet nem marad, Forgách 2015).

L’ eredità e l’attualità delle riforme scolastiche di Kunó Klebelsberg. L’introduzione dell’insegnamento della lingua italiana nell’istruzione pubblica ungherese

2026-03-04T14:20:15+00:00

One of the most significant periods in the history of Italian-Hungarian relations can be traced back to the 1920s. Following the First World War, Hungary found itself in a state of severe economic weakness and political isolation. To address this situation, the Prime Minister at the time, István Bethlen, launched a foreign policy aimed at seeking new strategic allies. In this context, Italy was identified as a potential privileged partner, thus initiating a process of gradual diplomatic rapprochement between the two countries. A central figure of this period was Kunó Klebelsberg, Minister of Culture and an influential actor in Hungarian politics at the time. A great connoisseur of the Italian language and culture, Klebelsberg traveled to Rome in 1927 with the aim of preparing for Bethlen’s official visit to Italy. On that occasion, the minister also took the opportunity to present the reform program of the entire Hungarian school system, which he had promoted, and in which the introduction of the Italian language into public education held a particularly important role. This study aims to analyze the key guidelines of Klebelsberg’s educational policy, the initial steps taken to introduce Italian language teaching into the Hungarian school system, as well as the main elements of the speech he delivered at the University of Rome in 1927.

Alcune considerazioni sulla storia antica degli ungheresi (Parte II)

2026-03-04T14:22:36+00:00

The study of the origins and protohistory of the Magyars has long attracted considerable interest both nationally and internationally. Despite extensive research, many questions remain unresolved, due to the scarcity of written sources and their problematic reliability and interpretation. In recent years, however, archaeogenetic investigations have introduced new perspectives, allowing the issue to be addressed with greater rigour. Until the nineteenth century, the theory of kinship between the Huns and the Magyars, attested in medieval Hungarian chronicles, was widespread even in scholarly circles. Simultaneously, historical linguistics established Hungarian as a Finno-Ugric language closely related to Mansi and Khanty. Initially, these two perspectives were not considered mutually exclusive: it was assumed that the Huns could be among the ancestors of the Magyars, while acknowledging that Hungarian belonged to the Finno-Ugric languages. The divide between the two models emerged in the late nineteenth century, when historians subjected the chronicle sources to critical scrutiny, revealing their dependence on Western texts and thereby reducing their documentary value. In this context, the linguistic paradigm gradually imposed itself as the main interpretive framework for the origins of the Magyars, a paradigm which, in light of the most recent archaeogenetic findings, now appears to be substantially confirmed in its general outlines. This article seeks to analyze these developments from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on the contribution of genetic data to the redefinition of the debate on Hungarian ethnogenesis.

Morfologia nominale khanty e ungherese a confronto

2026-03-04T14:24:50+00:00

The aim of this study is to compare the nominal morphology of Hungarian with that of Khanty, an endangered language spoken in western Siberia, considered the language most closely related to Hungarian by traditional taxonomy. Khanty is not a uniform language, but rather a continuum of linguistic varieties that can be classified into three main dialect groups: northern, southern, and eastern. These differ in their degree of vulnerability, as well as presenting notable differences in phonology, morphology, and syntax. In the field of nominal morphology, greater attention was paid to case systems, which exhibit simplification in the north and increased complexity in the east: while the inventories of northern dialects include only three cases, this number rises to eleven in eastern dialects. Hungarian, with its 18 cases, remains the richest Uralic language in this respect. However, both languages devote a large part of their inventories to locative cases. As for number suffixes, the Khanty dialects are richer, distinguishing three grammatical numbers, whereas Hungarian distinguishes only two. This also makes the paradigm of possessive suffixes more complex.

La religione dei sámi

2026-03-04T14:26:07+00:00

Located in the Northern regions, sámi people have always inspired travellers and historians that depicted them as mighty sourceres. Their conception fo the world, together with their rituals and cults have preserved ancient traits that may help understanding the corrispondent uses of neighbouring peoples. Their religion and some of their rituals may be inherited in ancient times. Sámi’s pantheon may derive from Nordic mythology. The present article aims to show the sámi’s conception of the world through the dead’s cult and that of sacred stones, the bear’s veneration, the nature’s, birth’s and home’s gods, ending with sámi shamanism.

La Rutenia subcarpatica. Dal Regno d’Ungheria all’Ucraina sovietica: il dominio ungherese (1867-1918)

2026-03-04T14:27:31+00:00

A quintessential borderland, Subcarpathian Ruthenia (today part of Ukraine, as the Zakarpattia Oblast) has long stood at the crossroads of major historical upheavals, often little known outside the historiography of Eastern Europe. From the Early Middle Ages, marked by the arrival of Slavic populations and subsequently of the Magyars, to the present day, shaped by the consequences of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, the region has been traversed by peoples, languages, religions, and cultures, but also by armies, occupations, violences and deportations, all of which have contributed to making this territory one of the most distinctive in Europe. In this first section – part of a broader study devoted to the historical trajectory of Subcarpathian Ruthenia (known in Hungarian simply as Kárpátalja) – following a brief introductory overview, the aim is to reconstruct the historical context of the region between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Particular attention will be given to the period following the Compromise of 1867, when Subcarpathian Ruthenia was incorporated into the reborn Kingdom of Hungary, the Magyarization campaign launched by the governments in Budapest, and the outbreak of the First World War, during which the region became the scene of fierce clashes between the Central Powers and Tsarist Russia. This introductory study is therefore proposed as the first part of a larger one as well dedicated to successive moments in the history of the region.

La memoria collettiva nei tempi di crisi: la trasformazione dell’identità nazionale e delle narrazioni europee nel Gruppo di Visegrád

2026-03-04T14:28:52+00:00

L’articolo analizza come le crisi globali del periodo 2020-2025 – pandemia di COVID-19, guerra in Ucraina, crisi energetica e inflazione – abbiano trasformato la memoria collettiva e l’identità nazionale nei paesi del Gruppo di Visegrád. Attraverso la costruzione di un ampio corpus multilingue (testi dei media nazionali ed europei, commenti degli utenti sui social network e forum), lo studio applica strumenti delle Digital Humanities: analisi corpus-based, topic modeling e mappatura semantica. I risultati mostrano che le crisi non producono un discorso unitario, ma accentuano contraddizioni già esistenti. L’Unione Europea viene rappresentata simultaneamente come fonte di protezione e come minaccia alla sovranità nazionale. Questa ambivalenza, lungi dall’essere episodica, riflette configurazioni identitarie di lunga durata in Europa centrale, dove l’integrazione sovranazionale e il nazionalismo coesistono in un regime di conflitto. L’analisi comparativa dei quattro paesi evidenzia differenze significative: in Polonia prevale la retorica dell’UE come “scudo”, in Ungheria come “dittatore”, in Repubblica Ceca come risorsa pragmatica, in Slovacchia come figura ambivalente. I commenti degli utenti rafforzano la polarizzazione, richiamando traumi storici (Trianon, Smolensk, Rivoluzione di velluto), che fungono da “ancoraggi della memoria”. Dal punto di vista metodologico, l’articolo dimostra la produttività dell’integrazione tra approcci qualitativi e quantitativi, garantendo rappresentatività, trasparenza e riproducibilità. Si evidenziano prospettive di ricerca comparativa e l’importanza di includere fonti multimodali e pratiche commemorative offline.

The Great Terror Beyond the USSR. Postwar Soviet Deportations in Central and Eastern Europe, and the Balkans (1940s-1950s)

2026-03-04T14:30:22+00:00

This article analyzes the transformation of Soviet national policy in the postwar period, using the example of the spread of ethnic cleansing and mass deportations as an element of control over national regions and ideological pressure on society from the internal policy of the USSR to the external one, organizing these practices in the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe. The second part of the article examines the historiographical debates on the extension of Great Terror to the postwar period. The third part presents an analysis of national operations and their spread beyond the USSR. The final part presents an analysis of the Hungarian case, ethnic deportations from the Balkans, and mass deportations of the Hungarian and German populations from the Transcarpathian region of western Ukraine and Romania.

Elitismo culturale e pensiero moderno. I padiglioni d’Ungheria alla VI e VII Triennale di Milano

2026-03-04T14:31:28+00:00

Between 1935 and 1940, the Hungarian pavilions at the VI. and VII. Milan Triennale served as catalysts for a modern visual language, which contemporarely was represented by the organic architecture of Alvar Aalto, the rational modernism of Le Corbusier, and the razionalismo of Giuseppe Pagano. The curatorial projects and ideas advanced by the Hungarian curator Tibor Gerevich represented an attempt to convey a message of modernity based on the concept of national-popular self-determination. The use of mise en abyme and Kleinarchitektur, through the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk, served to convey a message of progress, which presented itself as a tool of political and cultural propaganda. The Hungarian
pavilions at the 6th and 7th Milan Triennale are invaluable proof that a modern visual language, by compromising with a political discourse, can alter the message to a contemporary audience. For this reason, this study will highlight how Tibor Gerevich’s curatorial projects represented a contemporary language in which modern thoughts were strongly influenced by a rejection of modernity itself.

Dieci anni di Aladár Kuncz

2026-03-04T14:35:11+00:00

La vita di Lajos Tüköry, soldato di ungheresi, ottomani, italiani. Convegno internazionale (Istanbul, 5 novembre 2025)

2026-03-04T14:36:43+00:00

La bella vita di Rezeda Kázmér di Gyula Krúdy

2026-03-04T14:37:56+00:00

La lettura come orientamento nel mondo. Comprendere la letteratura attraverso gli occhi di Zsuzsa Tapodi

2026-03-04T14:40:22+00:00

Ricordo di Maria Teresa Angelini (1945-2025)

2026-03-04T14:41:20+00:00