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1956er Gyula Varga: ‘I will serve my Hungarian heritage until my last breath’

‘Family, school, church, scouting. The combination of these four elements is the only way the Hungarian diaspora can survive in North America. Despite the lack of a perceivable enemy today, we give up ourselves,’ 1956er Gyula Varga, former principal of…

A Conversation with Franciscan Friar Barnabás Kiss, Hungarian Pastor in Detroit

An in-depth interview with Franciscan Friar Barnabás G. Kiss, Pastor of the Hungarian Parish in Detroit, who has been serving in the U.S. for 40 years. While trying to keep various church communities alive in the Great Lakes region, he…

Imre Lendvai-Lintner: Thirty Years Leading Hungarian American Scouting

In 1989 scouting became again legally permitted in Hungary. Consequently, the émigré Hungarian Scout Association changed its name to the current one: Hungarian Scout Association in Exteris. Nowadays it comprises more than 70 troops on four continents, in 14 countries,…

Reimagining Folklife Resources — A Conversation with Anna De Cheke Qualls

An in-depth interview with Anna (Panni) De Cheke Qualls, co-founder of the Hungarian Folklife Association, who moved to the States as a child with her family in the 1980s, then became actively involved in Hungarian folk dancing after her son,…
Emese Kerkay in her home in 2023

‘My goal is making Hungarian culture known’ — A Conversation with Emese Kerkay

Both Emese and her husband, László Kerkay have been cultivators of the rich Hungarian historical and cultural heritage and overall active contributors to the life of the Hungarian community of Passaic, New Jersey, having served at the Hungarian school for…

‘We have grown the most in our faith and Hungarian identity’ — A Conversation with Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Programme Scholars Ágnes and István Vámosi

An in-depth interview with Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Programme scholars Ágnes and István Vámosi, who undertook the responsibility of teaching Hungarian folk dance in Los Angeles for two years with their little son, Pityke in tow….
Bernadett Csizmadia with some of her students

‘My mission is to pass on my Hungarian identity’ — Meet Bernadett Csizmadia

The staging of the musical version of one of the most popular young adult fiction works ever written in Hungarian, titled Be Faithful Unto Death, was a major undertaking and a dream come true for the initiator of the project,…

‘It Would Be a Sin to Do Nothing Even If We Cannot Do Everything’

‘When you move abroad, either of necessity or at your own initiative, the inevitable clash between the host and home cultures raises questions about the future of your mother tongue, culture of origin, and national identity. In a foreign language…
Students dressed in traditional costumes at the oath-taking ceremony of the Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education in the Beregszász (Berehove) Reformed Church on 23 September 2023.

‘Transcarpathian Hungarians have always clung to their roots’ — An Interview with Berta Katona-Mironova

‘For our children, the mother tongue is a means and an opportunity for fulfilment and self-fulfilment. In the words of György Bessenyei: “Every nation becomes a scholar in its own language, but never in a foreign one.”’ Read Luke Larson’s…

‘The Hungarian revolution of 1956 became a part of me’ — An Interview with Edith K. Lauer, Chair Emerita of the Hungarian American Coalition 

‘While establishing the Coalition in the early 1990s, I often tried to look at issues through the “other lens”. If something works in the US, why not try it in Hungary? And if it works in Hungary, why not try…

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