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100 1 _aRákosi, Jenő,
_d1842-1929
245 1 2 _aA magyarságért
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-10
508 _aAlbert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian National Digital Archive
520 _aA magyarságért by Jenő Rákosi is a collection of political and cultural essays written in the early 20th century. The volume champions Hungarian national identity, placing the language at the center of cultural survival while critiquing cosmopolitan habits and foreign influence. It reflects on art, minorities, and press freedom, elevating figures like Munkácsy, Liszt, Jókai, and Arany as embodiments of Hungarian genius. The opening of the book begins with a playful preface that likens the journalist’s scattered articles to abandoned offspring later gathered into a volume. It then launches into “A magyar glóbusz,” celebrating a symbolic Hungarian conquest of the senses through Munkácsy’s painting, Liszt’s music, Jókai’s storytelling, and Arany’s quiet mastery. Subsequent sections argue that a nation lives through its language, warning against early foreign-language education and asserting that Hungarian’s structure mirrors the character, architecture, and rhythms of rural life. The author urges a conscious “cult” of the national tongue, defends phonetic Hungarian spellings for foreign words and names, and insists the state must remain unequivocally Hungarian while granting cultural freedoms to minorities. He also rebukes Budapest’s adulation of a German-stage actress of Hungarian origin as a lapse in civic pride, and finally opens a reflection on the 50th anniversary of press freedom by asking whether ideals, institutions, or journalists themselves have fallen short. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBudapest: Élet, 1914
653 _aHungary -- Civilization
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77669
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