Wishing all our kind Readers a very blessed and healthy New Year!

Kivánunk minden kedves Olvasónknak áldásos, békés, egészséges új esztendőt!

Statue of Petőfi in Fehéregyháza, Transylvania

Important historical dates may be of different types;  many of them are dates of battles, others may commemorate the signing of a significant document. This one is a birthday. It is the day on which a person of great historic and literary significance was born.   

Charlie Bálintitt's 100th birthday party

Charlie Bálintitt’s lifetime of a hundred years spans a very turbulent time in Hungarian history.  Below is his story, as he related it in a very concise and focused manner, with a few facts added by his wife Éva.

The Rákóczi Castle at Sárospatak

During last year’s visit to Hungary, Zsuzsa Lengyel, President of Magyar Studies of America, together with a schoolmate from the “old days”, Olga Svékus (widow of film director Tibor Nagy) visited a friend in Sárospatak, in northeastern Hungary. Here are some “snapshots” she took of that city.

In “America is Named after St. Emery” (Nov. 2011 issue), we erroneously gave the date of canonization for Imre, István and Gellért as 1031. It should be 1083!  Sorry for the mistake!

If you have a Hungarian surname, and are not sure what it means, you may find your answer in this article.

Inspired by Zsuzsa’s trip to Sárospatak, where she and her friend picked sour cherries off the tree, this tasty pastry can be made with canned sour cherries as well, any time of year. 

Hugonnai Vilma

A study of women in Hungarian science was published in Budapest, sketching the careers of outstanding female personalities of two centuries. It is considered a pioneering study, reviewed here by our Florida contributor, Ella Bitskey.

The May 1994 issue of the print Magyar News, as well as our March 2011 online version included articles about some really distant Hungarian “relatives”. An interesting item relating to them has just been in the news recently.