Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930

415 Pages·1994·34.715 MB·English

by  Thomas Bender (editor), Carle E. Schorske (editor)

BUDAPEST and NEW YORK

BUDAPEST
and NEW YORK
Studies in Metropolitan Transformation:
1870-1930
Edited by
THOMAS BENDER and CARL E. SCHORSKE
Russell Sage Foundation / New York
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Budapest and New York : studies in metropolitan transformation, 1870~1930 /
edited by Thomas Bcnder and Carl E. Schorske.
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Contents
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
I ntroauction
Budapest and New York Compared
Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske 1
Part 1
POLITICS: PARTICIPATION AND POLICY
Introduction 29
Chapter 1
Transformations in the City Politics of Budapest:
1873-1941 Zsuzsa L. Nagy 35
Chapter 2
Political Participation and Municipal Policy:
New York City: 1870-1940 David C. Hammack 55
Part II
SPACE: SOCIETY AND BEHAVIOR
Introduction 81
Chapter 3
Uses and Misuses of Public Space in Budapest:
1873-1914 Gabor Gy[mi 85
Chapter 4
The Park and the People:
Central Park and Its Publics: 1850-1910
Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig 108
vii
CONTENTS
Part III
NEIGHBORHOODS: CLASS AND ETHNICITY
Introduction 135
Cfiapter5
Class and Ethnicity in
the Creation of New York City Neighborhoods:
1900-1930
Deborah Dash Moore 139
Chapter 6
St. Imre Garden City: An Urban Community
Istvan TepJan 161
Part IV
POPULAR CULTURE: HETEROGENEITY
AND INTEGRATION
Introduction 181
Chapter 7
Immigrants, Ethnicity, and Mass Culture:
The Vaudeville Stage in New York City: 1880-1930
Robert W Snyder 185
Chapter 8
The Cultural Role of the Vienna-Budapest Operetta
Peter Hanak 209
Cfiapter9
The Budapest Joke and Comic Weeklies
as Mirrors of Cultural Assimilation Geza Buzinkay 224
Cfzapterl0
Covering New York: Journalism and Civic Identity
in the Twentieth Century Neil Harris 248
viii
CONTENTS
Part 0/
THE HIGH ARTS: METROPOLITAN
AUTONOMY AND MODERNISM
Introduction 269
Chapter 11
The Artist's New York: 1900-1930 Wanda M. Corn 275
Chapter 12
Avant-Garde and Conservatism
in the Budapest Art World: 1910-1932 Eva Forgacs 309
Chapter 13
The Novel as Newspaper and Gallery of Voices:
The American Novel in New York City:
1890-1930 Philip Fisher 332
Chapter 14
The Role of Budapest in Hungarian Literature:
1890-1935 Miklos Lacko 352
YLfterword
Historical Perspectives and National Cultures
Carl E. Schorske and Thomas Bender 367
Appendix
Papers presented at the Conference on the
History of Budapest and New York:
1870-1930 [Budapest, 1988] 373
Contributors 375
Index 379
ix