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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 The Russell Sage Foundation The Russell Sage Foundation, one of the oldest of America's general purpose founda tions, was established in 1907 by Mrs. Margaret Olivia Sage for "the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States./1 The Foundation seeks to fulfill this mandate by fostering the development and dissemination of knowledge about the country's political, social, and economic problems. While the Foundation endeavors to assure the accuracy and objectivity of each book it publishes, the conclusions and ll1terpretations in Russell Sage Foundation publications are those of the authors and not of the Foundation, its Trustees, or its staff. Publication by Russcll Sage, thereforc, does not imply Foundation endorsement. BOARD OF TRUSTEES James G. March, Chair Anne Pitts Carter Ira Katznelson Harold Tanner Joel E. Cohen Howard Raiffa Marta Tienda Peggy C. Davis John S. Reed Eric Wanner Phoebe C. Ellsworth Neil f. Smelser William Julius Wilson Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Budapest and New York : studies in metropolitan transformation, 1870~1930 / edited by Thomas Bcnder and Carl E. Schorske. p. cm. "The conference that produced this volume was held in Budapest in 1988/1- Acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references Ip. ) and index. ISBN 0-87154-113-0 1. Budapest IHungary) civilization. 2. New York IN.Y.)-Civiliza- tion. 3. Budapest IHungary)-Popular culture-Congresses. 4. New York IN.Y.) Popular culture-Congresses. 1. Render, Thomas. II. Schorske, Carl E. III. Russell Sage Foundation. DB988.B8 1994 93-13533 306'.09439'12-dc20 CIP Copyright © 1994 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo copying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Every effort has been made by the publisher to trace the copyright holders of all illus trations in this book. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Text design by JOHN JOHNSTON RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION 112 East 64th Street, New York, New York 10021 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To the Memory of HERBERT G. GUTMAN AND GYORGY RANKI Two extraordinary scholars and citizens, collaborators in the initiation of this project, who did not live to see the fruits of their dreams of free international movement of scholars and scholarship 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
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