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Swanson, left, receives the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John Swanson\u2019s book, \u201cTangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary,\u201d was recently honored with the\u00a0Barbara Jelavich Book Prize<\/a>, a major prize for scholars researching and writing about Central and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Swanson\u2019s book focuses on the German minority in Hungary from the late 19th to the late 20th century. He dug deep with a grassroots, on-the-ground approach to explore how a rural population, which left minimal sources for research, thought about their own identities as well as their neighbors.<\/p>\n

Swanson says his book offers new ways to \u201cthink about ethnic and national identity in Central and Eastern Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGerman speakers usually thought of themselves as \u2018Germans,\u2019 but what \u2018German\u2019 meant was not the same for all people and it was an ethnic category that was continually changing \u2026 well into the twentieth century German speakers maintained a local, tangible identity: their sense of being German was determined by the immediate world around them\u2014the tangible world,\u201d Swanson explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Swanson\u2019s book, \u201cTangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary,\u201d was recently honored with the\u00a0Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, a major prize for scholars researching and writing about Central and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

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