The goal of the book prize is to recognize quality scholarship in Hungarian Studies and support Hungarian Studies in the United States. The book prize is awarded biennially for the most important contribution to Hungarian Studies originally published in English in the previous two calendar years. The HSA Book Prize carries a cash award and is presented at the meeting of the Hungarian Studies Association at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies http://www.aseees.org/convention (ASEEES.) Professor Gluck will receive her award at the 2017 ASEEES annual convention in Chicago, IL this November, 2017.
About the Book
Budapest at the fin de siècle was famed and emulated for its cosmopolitan urban culture and nightlife. It was also the second-largest Jewish city in Europe. Mary Gluck delves into the popular culture of Budapest’s coffee houses, music halls, and humor magazines to uncover the enormous influence of assimilated Jews in creating modernist Budapest between 1867 and 1914. She explores the paradox of Budapest in this era: because much of the Jewish population embraced and promoted a secular, metropolitan culture, their influence as Jews was both profound and invisible.