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Pursuing a quote from the “scribbler” Imre Roboz
Occasionally the detective emerges in all of us with any intellectual curiosity. That is what happened to me yesterday when for the second time I read about the Jewish Bolshevik Imre Roboz (1892-1945)...
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Looking backward: Historical complexity and political simplification
A couple of days ago I mentioned that three historians who are attached to the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Science were entrusted with deciding the fate of persons and concepts...
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Bálint Hóman is rehabilitated
Among the best-known Hungarian historians of the twentieth century were “Hóman-Szekfű.” The two last names grew together, something like Ilf-Petrov or Gilbert and Sullivan. They were the authors of a...
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Ideas that refuse to die: Christian-national ideology of the Horthy era
History may not repeat itself, but political ideas often do. During my last few days of forced internet inactivity I turned my attention to the so-called “Christian-national course” of the Horthy era....
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