Volume 56, Number 18 · November 19, 2009
Heroes from Hungary
By István Deák
Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals Through Germany to the United States, 1919–1945
by Tibor Frank
Peter Lang/Exile Studies Volume 7, 501 pp., $103.95 (paper)
Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America
by Kati Marton
Simon and Schuster, 288 pp., $26.00
During the 1930s a story was told about a sign outside the entrance to a Hollywood film studio: 'It is not enough to be a Hungarian; one must also have talent.' Another story was about a meeting of top US atomic scientists at which, when Enrico Fermi has stepped out of the room, the others sigh with relief: 'Now, at last, we can speak Hungarian.' Much heard at the time was the joke: 'How do you recognize a Hungarian? He enters a revolving door behind you, but leaves ahead of you.'
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