Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Brody, Judit and Kovari, Thomas, 1930-2010
- Abstract:
- Correspondence of Judit Brody and her husband Thomas Kovari with other post-1956 Hungarian émigrés in Western Europe and the United States, relating to resettlement adjustments.
- Extent:
- 1 manuscript box (0.4 Linear Feet)
- Language:
- In Hungarian and English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Judit Brody-Thomas Kovari correspondence, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Correspondence of Judit Brody and her husband Thomas Kovari with other post-1956 Hungarian émigrés in Western Europe and the United States, relating to resettlement adjustments. The correspondence documents the life and concerns of some of the Hungarian exiles in their first years of life in the West: a collection of one hundred letters, dated between 1956 and 1959, written to Thomas Kovari and Judit Brody by their friends, young intellectuals and academics, who, like them, had left Hungary in late 1956. The letters are in Hungarian, with English translations and information about the authors provided by Judit Brody.
- Biographical / historical:
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Thomas and Judit were Hungarian émigrés in Great Britain. Both were graduates of Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, he in mathematics and she in physics and mathematics. They were married a year before they left Hungary. After a few months of refugee life in Austria, they immigrated to England. Thomas obtained his PhD and DSc from the University of London and taught at its Imperial College; Judit worked as a science librarian in London's Science Museum.
- Acquisition information:
- Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2011.
- Physical location:
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
- Terms of access:
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For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Judit Brody-Thomas Kovari correspondence, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Location of this collection:
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Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-6003, US
- Contact:
- (650) 723-3563