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A century ago, Vienna and Budapest were the capital cities of the western and eastern halves of the increasingly unstable Austro-Hungarian empire and scenes of intense cultural activity. Vienna was home to such figures as Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Budapest produced such luminaries as Béla Bartók, Georg Lukács, and Michael and Karl Polanyi. However, as Péter Hanák shows in these vignettes of Fin-de-Siécle life, the intellectual and artistic vibrancy common to the two cities emerged from deeply different civic cultures.Hanák surveys the urban development of the two cities and reviews the effects of modernization on various aspects of their cultures. He examines the process of physical change, as rapid population growth, industrialization, and the rising middle class ushered in a new age of tenements, suburbs, and town planning. He investigates how death and its rituals--once the domain of church, family, and local community--were transformed by the commercialization of burials and the growing bureaucratic control of graveyards. He explores the mentality of common soldiers and their families--mostly of peasant origin--during World War I, detecting in letters to and from the front a shift toward a revolutionary mood among Hungarians in particular. He presents snapshots of such subjects as the mentality of the nobility, operettas and musical life, and attitudes toward Germans and Jews, and also reveals the striking relationship between social marginality and cultural creativity.In comparing the two cities, Hanák notes that Vienna, famed for its spacious parks and gardens, was often characterized as a "garden" of esoteric culture. Budapest, however, was a dense city surrounded by factories, whose cultural leaders referred to the offices and cafés where they met as "workshops." These differences were reflected, he argues, in the contrast between Vienna's aesthetic and individualistic culture and Budapest's more moralistic and socially engaged approach. Like Carl Schorske's famous Fin-de-Siécle Vienna, Hanák's book paints a remarkable portrait of turn-of-the-century life in Central Europe. Its particular focus on mass culture and everyday life offers important new insights into cultural currents that shaped the course of the twentieth century.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Budapest (Hongrie) --- Vienna (Austria) --- Budapest (Hungary) --- Vienne (Autriche) --- Civilization. --- Intellectual life. --- Civilisation --- Vie intellectuelle --- HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary.

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Festivals --- Festivals. --- Days --- Manners and customs --- Anniversaries --- Fasts and feasts --- Pageants --- Processions --- Social aspects. --- Budapest (Hungary) --- Budimpešta (Hungary) --- Budapesht (Hungary) --- Voudapestē (Hungary) --- Buda (Hungary) --- Pest (Hungary) --- Civilization. --- Óbuda (Hungary)

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Joris, Lieve, --- Travel --- Hungary --- Budapest (Hungary) --- Description and travel --- Politics and government --- 943.9.07 --- Joris, Lieve --- -Hungary --- -943.9.07 --- 830 Economie --- 838 Duurzame Ontwikkeling --- 841.1 Democratisering --- 841 Politiek Bestel --- 884.1 Oost-Europa --- 890 Verhalende literatuur --- Joris, L. --- Budimpešta (Hungary) --- Budapesht (Hungary) --- Voudapestē (Hungary) --- Buda (Hungary) --- Pest (Hungary) --- Description and travel. --- Regional documentation --- Dutch literature --- anno 1980-1989 --- Joris, Godelieve Elisabeth Achiel Micheline --- Hongarije --- Joris, Lieve, - 1953- - Travel - Hungary - Budapest --- Hungary - Description and travel --- Budapest (Hungary) - Description and travel --- Hungary - Politics and government - 1989 --- -921 --- 921 --- geschiedenis Europa --- histoire Europe --- -Joris, Lieve, --- Óbuda (Hungary) --- Joris, Lieve, - 1953 --- Hongarije.

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The Holocaust and the birth and growth of Israel are strikingly different Jewish historical events. Yet they are related, just like the author, Gabriel Laufer and his father. With only a few hints in hand, Laufer researched the details of his father's Holocaust survival in the Hungarian forced labor battalions near Stalingrad, as a slave building German bunkers for weapon factories, and later, his escape from Stalinist Hungary. In this book, Laufer shares the gripping stories of his father's experiences juxtaposed with his own as an Israeli Defense Force officer in the Six Days War and the three wars that followed. Laufer leads the reader through his family's personal history and its place in some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.

Children of Holocaust survivors --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust survivors' children --- Holocaust survivors --- Laufer, Gabriel. --- Budapest (Hungary) --- Budimpešta (Hungary) --- Budapesht (Hungary) --- Voudapestē (Hungary) --- Buda (Hungary) --- Pest (Hungary) --- Ethnic relations. --- Budapest. --- Holocaust. --- Hungary. --- Israel. --- Six Day War. --- family history. --- Óbuda (Hungary)

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Nineteenth-century national movements perceived the nation as a community defined by language, culture and history. Part of the infrastructure to convince the public were institutions publishing literary and scientific texts in the national language. Starting with the Matica srpska (Pest, 1826), a particular kind of society was established in several parts of the Habsburg Empire – inspiring each other, but with often major differences in activities, membership and financing. Outside of the Slavic world analogue institutions played a similar key role in the early stages of national revival in Europe. The Matica and Beyond is the first concerted attempt to comparatively investigate both the specificity and commonality of these cultural associations, bringing together cases from differing regional, political and social circumstances. Contributors are: Daniel Baric, Benjamin Bossaert, Marijan Dović, Liljana Gushevska, Jörg Hackmann, Roisín Higgins, Alfonso Iglesias Amorín, Dagmar Kročanová, Joep Leerssen, Marion Löffler, Philippe Martel, Alexei Miller, Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, Iryna Orlevych, Magdaléna Pokorná, Miloš Řezník, Jan Rock, Diliara M. Usmanova, and Zsuzsanna Varga.

History --- History, Modern --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- World history --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- E-books --- Nationalism --- History. --- Matica srpska (Novi Sad, Serbia) --- Matica srpska, Novi Sad --- Matica srpska (Budapest, Hungary) --- Novi Sad (Serbia). --- Matit︠s︡a serbska (Novi Sad, Serbia) --- Matit︠s︡a serbskai︠a︡ (Novi Sad, Serbia) --- Матица српска (Novi Sad, Serbia)