James Koranyi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1259475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Koranyi |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Koranyi |
| SIGNATURE | KORANYI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Visions of Europe in the East of Europe from late socialism to EU enlargement
This introduction argues that Eastern European ideas of Europe were central to the production, contestation, and redefinition of European identity from the 1980s to the present. It charts the history of the ‘eastern ideas’ for the European project over the past four decades, which moved from a mildly enthusiastic, yet ambivalent, ‘return to Europe’, to a sceptical and equally ambivalent ‘after Europe’. The second section discusses the paradoxical…
Editors’ Response
The Making of Mămăligă
Alex Drace-Francis's book The Making of Mămăligă tells the story of maize in Romania—and more broadly in central and southeastern Europe—over six centuries. In a pithy and highly entertaining history of the crop, Drace-Francis covers, often in surprising detail, known historical moments and periods in a new light by foregrounding maize as the lens through which to view Romania's history. Maize, and later that Romanian national-cultural dish mămăl…
Opposing Memories
The history of Romanian dissidence during the Cold War often seems rather barren. Yet, as this article demonstrates, the legacy of Romanian opposition to Cold War communism is vexed with conflicts over ownership in a fragmented circle of late Cold War era oppositional voices and actors. A daring attempt to cross the Danube by a young Romanian German student in 1970 and an earthquake in the year 1977 provide the historical backdrop to these post-c…
Digging Politics
The Invisible Jewish Budapest
Jewish Budapest is very visible today. From classy Israeli restaurants to the mimicking of Hebrew script on bar signs, Erzsébetváros—Budapest’s seventh district to which the old Jewish Budapest belongs—showcases its Jewish heritage with apparent confidence. It is also a highly contested place, as anti-Jewish sentiment has resurfaced in the social and political life of Budapest and Hungary (though some might argue it never disappeared). Self-aware…
Shaping the Transnational Sphere
The ‘age of nationalism’ is no more. Instead, scholars have turned their attention to histories of the late modern period that no longer fit into the established pattern of the rise of nationalism. Seeking out the murky beginnings of connections and networks, transnational history has become more than a mere stylish intervention in the area of modern history. Davide Rodogno, Bernhard Struck and Jakob Vogel’s edited volume adds to this burgeoning …
The thirteen martyrs of Arad
This chapter discusses the nationalisation of the Arad Thirteen within the Hungarian Kingdom from 1867; the site and subsequent monument to the martyrs were transformed: the erstwhile symbols against empire were turned into symbols of empire. By exploring crucial moments in the history of the monument and its original and successive locations, it is possible to trace the changing meaning of this imperial site of memory. The chapter focuses on the…
Memory and Change in Europe
At the heart of this volume lies a simple yet important question: where are Eastern European memories in Europe today? With heartening irreverence towards Tony Judt, the editors Malgorzata Pakier a
Germans as Minorities during the First World War
How did Germans experience the First World War and its aftermath, and why were they seen as problematic in societies across the globe? At first glance, the answers to these questions seem self-evident: Germans were the enemy during the war and they often stood in direct competition with aspiring and emerging nations. A closer inspection of case-studies across the globe reveals a more intricate picture, as the numerous contributions to the volume …
The making of landscape in modernity
Two recent exhibitions at the British Museum and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London showcased the most prominent eighteenth- and nineteenth-century landscape paintings from the German Lands and
Voyages of Socialist Discovery
This article explores the little-known history of German-German exchanges between East Germany and Romania during the Cold War. It reveals a complex picture of tourism, travel and information exchange in which Germans from both countries were able to construct socialist escapes. While the Cold War history of Germans in East-Central Europe has tended to either ignore their presence or focus mainly on expulsion and emigration, this article highligh…
From Diaspora to Diaspora
This article investigates the relationship between Transylvanian Saxons (Siebenbürger Sachsen) and their perceived “external homeland.” The authors consider the history of German minorities in East-Central Europe and, more specifically, briefly outline the history of Transylvanian Saxons. Against this backdrop, this article examines the changing nature of minority policies promoted by the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) until the present day, w…
Reinventing the Banat
While Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider advocate cosmopolitanism as a way of freeing ourselves from grand narratives and putting the subject back on the agenda of research, this article illustrates that such uses of cosmopolitanism can create more problems than they propose to solve. In the case of the Romanian Banat, the recent revival of a cosmopolitan past based on the legacy of the German and other minorities has been intricately tied up with ex…
From Diaspora to Diaspora
This article investigates the relationship between Transylvanian Saxons (Siebenbürger Sachsen) and their perceived “external homeland.” The authors consider the history of German minorities in East-Central Europe and, more specifically, briefly outline the history of Transylvanian Saxons. Against this backdrop, this article examines the changing nature of minority policies promoted by the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) until the present day, w…
Reinventing the Banat
While Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider advocate cosmopolitanism as a way of freeing ourselves from grand narratives and putting the subject back on the agenda of research, this article illustrates that such uses of cosmopolitanism can create more problems than they propose to solve. In the case of the Romanian Banat, the recent revival of a cosmopolitan past based on the legacy of the German and other minorities has been intricately tied up with ex…
Voyages of Socialist Discovery
This article explores the little-known history of German-German exchanges between East Germany and Romania during the Cold War. It reveals a complex picture of tourism, travel and information exchange in which Germans from both countries were able to construct socialist escapes. While the Cold War history of Germans in East-Central Europe has tended to either ignore their presence or focus mainly on expulsion and emigration, this article highligh…
From Diaspora to Diaspora
This article investigates the relationship between Transylvanian Saxons (Siebenbürger Sachsen) and their perceived “external homeland.” The authors consider the history of German minorities in East-Central Europe and, more specifically, briefly outline the history of Transylvanian Saxons. Against this backdrop, this article examines the changing nature of minority policies promoted by the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) until the present day, w…
Reinventing the Banat
While Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider advocate cosmopolitanism as a way of freeing ourselves from grand narratives and putting the subject back on the agenda of research, this article illustrates that such uses of cosmopolitanism can create more problems than they propose to solve. In the case of the Romanian Banat, the recent revival of a cosmopolitan past based on the legacy of the German and other minorities has been intricately tied up with ex…
The making of landscape in modernity
Two recent exhibitions at the British Museum and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London showcased the most prominent eighteenth- and nineteenth-century landscape paintings from the German Lands and
Voyages of Socialist Discovery
This article explores the little-known history of German-German exchanges between East Germany and Romania during the Cold War. It reveals a complex picture of tourism, travel and information exchange in which Germans from both countries were able to construct socialist escapes. While the Cold War history of Germans in East-Central Europe has tended to either ignore their presence or focus mainly on expulsion and emigration, this article highligh…
The thirteen martyrs of Arad
This chapter discusses the nationalisation of the Arad Thirteen within the Hungarian Kingdom from 1867; the site and subsequent monument to the martyrs were transformed: the erstwhile symbols against empire were turned into symbols of empire. By exploring crucial moments in the history of the monument and its original and successive locations, it is possible to trace the changing meaning of this imperial site of memory. The chapter focuses on the…
Memory and Change in Europe
At the heart of this volume lies a simple yet important question: where are Eastern European memories in Europe today? With heartening irreverence towards Tony Judt, the editors Malgorzata Pakier a
Germans as Minorities during the First World War
How did Germans experience the First World War and its aftermath, and why were they seen as problematic in societies across the globe? At first glance, the answers to these questions seem self-evident: Germans were the enemy during the war and they often stood in direct competition with aspiring and emerging nations. A closer inspection of case-studies across the globe reveals a more intricate picture, as the numerous contributions to the volume …
Shaping the Transnational Sphere
The ‘age of nationalism’ is no more. Instead, scholars have turned their attention to histories of the late modern period that no longer fit into the established pattern of the rise of nationalism. Seeking out the murky beginnings of connections and networks, transnational history has become more than a mere stylish intervention in the area of modern history. Davide Rodogno, Bernhard Struck and Jakob Vogel’s edited volume adds to this burgeoning …
The Invisible Jewish Budapest
Jewish Budapest is very visible today. From classy Israeli restaurants to the mimicking of Hebrew script on bar signs, Erzsébetváros—Budapest’s seventh district to which the old Jewish Budapest belongs—showcases its Jewish heritage with apparent confidence. It is also a highly contested place, as anti-Jewish sentiment has resurfaced in the social and political life of Budapest and Hungary (though some might argue it never disappeared). Self-aware…
Digging Politics
Opposing Memories
The history of Romanian dissidence during the Cold War often seems rather barren. Yet, as this article demonstrates, the legacy of Romanian opposition to Cold War communism is vexed with conflicts over ownership in a fragmented circle of late Cold War era oppositional voices and actors. A daring attempt to cross the Danube by a young Romanian German student in 1970 and an earthquake in the year 1977 provide the historical backdrop to these post-c…
The Making of Mămăligă
Alex Drace-Francis's book The Making of Mămăligă tells the story of maize in Romania—and more broadly in central and southeastern Europe—over six centuries. In a pithy and highly entertaining history of the crop, Drace-Francis covers, often in surprising detail, known historical moments and periods in a new light by foregrounding maize as the lens through which to view Romania's history. Maize, and later that Romanian national-cultural dish mămăl…
Editors’ Response
Visions of Europe in the East of Europe from late socialism to EU enlargement
This introduction argues that Eastern European ideas of Europe were central to the production, contestation, and redefinition of European identity from the 1980s to the present. It charts the history of the ‘eastern ideas’ for the European project over the past four decades, which moved from a mildly enthusiastic, yet ambivalent, ‘return to Europe’, to a sceptical and equally ambivalent ‘after Europe’. The second section discusses the paradoxical…
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