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Title: Judit Brody-Thomas Kovari correspondence
Date (inclusive): 1956-1959
Collection Number: 2011C63
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Hungarian and English
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box
(0.4 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator:
Brody, Judit
Creator:
Kovari, Thomas, 1930-2010
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2011.
[Identification of item], Judit Brody-Thomas Kovari correspondence, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
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.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1956
Refugees
Hungary -- Emigration and immigration
Hungarians -- Great Britain