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Vadrózsa on stage

From Angyalföld to New Brunswick — Hungarian Folk Dance Ensemble Vadrózsa’s American Tour

Vadrózsa Dance Ensemble is the most prominent non-professional folk dance ensemble in Hungary. With 40 dancers and five musicians, the main mission of their American tour, which included five stops (New York, Washington, DC, Cleveland, Boston, and New Brunswick) was…
Father Imre Juhász conducts mass at the Magyar Tanya in Barto, Pennsylvania in 2022.

The Earthly Home and the Heavenly Home: An Interview with Father Imre Juhász

Father Imre serves a congregation that has many elderly Hungarian parishioners who look to him not only for their spiritual but also logistical needs. He also helps the local Hungarian institutions by baking and cooking meals as well as with…

Raising a Whole Child — A Conversation with Founder of Aprókfalva Hungarian Preschool Enikő Gorondi and Her Daughter Réka Gorondi-Bányai

An in-depth interview with Enkő Gorondi, founder and headmaster of the Aprókfalva Montessori Preschool and learning pod, a unique Hungarian daily educational institution in Piscataway, New Jersey; and her daughter, who, as a teacher, scout leader and folk dance teacher…
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,…

‘Folk dance training doesn’t end in the rehearsal room’ — An Interview with Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Program Scholars Lili Balogh and István Dániel Molnár

Lili Balogh and István Dániel Molnár of the Angyalföld Vadrózsa Dance Ensemble came to the United States as Kőrösi Csoma Program scholars to teach Hungarian folk dancing in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We spoke with the young Hungarian couple, now…

Finding a Piece of Hungarian in Ourselves — An Interview with Melissa Katkó Pepin, Executive Director of the American Hungarian Foundation (AHF) in New Brunswick, NJ

‘I’m the Executive Director, but I also know that if there’s garbage, somebody must take it out. Similarly, I’m six feet tall, so if something in the back or on the top needs to be reached, I do it. When…
Denisa Bott-Varga

‘Volunteering is about helping a community, it is not about one person’ — An Interview with the President of the Hungarian American Athletic Club of New Brunswick

Denisa Bott-Varga has been an active member of the 110-year-old Hungarian American Athletic Club in New Brunswick and leader of the local Csűrdöngölő Folk Dance Ensemble since the early 2000s, when she arrived to the US from Slovakia. In 2023,…
Helga Lénárt-Cheng

‘We would need Hungarian academic departments and professors in North America again’ — An Interview with Helga Lénárt-Cheng, President of AHEA

‘As a PhD student, I was very shocked to see that Harvard has had chairs of all sorts of relatively small nationalities (Slovak, Greek, Ukrainian, and so on), except Hungarian. These departments and chairs can only be created through international…

Success of Teaching Hungarian Based on Cooperation between Families and Schools — 50-year Anniversary of the Széchenyi István Hungarian School in New Brunswick

The Széchenyi István Hungarian School and Kindergarten in New Brunswick (New Jersey) celebrated its 50th anniversary. The welcoming speeches were followed by an award ceremony, where former school principal Gyula Varga was awarded; then, former principals shared their experience and…
Gabriella Vajtay wearing a Reconnect backpack.

Planting Seeds to Strengthen Dual Identity — A Conversation with the Director of Reconnect Hungary

Gabriella Vajtay, an active member of the Hungarian community in New Brunswick, New Jersey, is the director of Reconnect Hungary. The interview with her revolves around the Reconnect Hungary Birthright Trip, a programme of the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation (HHRF),…

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