| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Eszterhas, Joseph |
| Title: | Joseph Eszterhas Essay |
| Dates: | 1965 |
| Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) |
| Abstract: | The collection consists of an essay entitled "Journey from futility to hope : the immigrant's road to American assimilation" written by Joseph A. Eszterhas while he was a student at Ohio University in the 1960s who was an editorial intern at radio station WZAK in Cleveland, Ohio. The essay is a typewritten manuscript prepared for his Journalism 370 course at Ohio University and based on his WZAK internship. The paper examines the assimilation process of Cleveland's Hungarian American community of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an example of the Central European immigrant experience. Includes a discussion of the historical development of assimilation, a nationality calendar, and consulates in Cleveland in 1965. |
| MS Number | MS 4468 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
Joseph A. Eszterhas (b. 1944) is a Hungarian American writer who was born in Hungary and spent his early childhood in a refugee camp in Austria. His family immigrated to the United States, living in New York City initially, but settling permanently in Cleveland, Ohio. Eszterhas attended Ohio University and was a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer in the mid-to-late 1960s. He was an editor at Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s. He is the author of several books, including Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse which was nominated for a National Book Award. He is a screenwriter whose work includes F.I.S.T, Jagged Edge, Basic Instinct, and Showgirls. His screenplay for the film Telling Lies in America is semi-autobiographical. In 1990, Eszterhas discovered that his father was under investigation by the United States Department of Justice for writing anti-Semitic propaganda in Hungary during the 1930s and 1940s.
The Joseph Eszterhas Essay, 1965, consists of a typewritten manuscript entitled "Journey from Futility to Hope: The Immigrant's Road to American Assimilation."
This manuscript was prepared by Eszterhas for his Journalism 370 class at Ohio University and is based on his editorial internship at WZAK-FM. It pertains largely to Hungarian-Americans in Cleveland, Ohio, as an example of Central European immigrants in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries adjusting to life in Cleveland. Specific subjects include the historical development of assimilation, a nationality calendar, and consulates in Cleveland in 1965.
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[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4468 Joseph Eszterhas Essay, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Ohio University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, 1983.
Processed by Bari Oyler Stith in 1990.