Jewish Budapest

Jewish Budapest
Author: Kinga Frojimovics
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 618
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789639116375

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This history of the Jews in Budapest provides an account of their culture and ritual customs and looks at each of the "Jewish quarters" of the city. It pays special attention to the usage of the Hebrew language and Jewish scholarship and also to the integration of the Jews

The Invisible Jewish Budapest

The Invisible Jewish Budapest
Author: Mary Gluck
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2016-04-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0299307700

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A groundbreaking, brilliant urban history of a vibrant Central European metropolis--Budapest--and of its now-forgotten assimilated Jews, who largely created its modernist culture in the decades before World War I.

The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe

The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Eli Valley
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780765760005

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The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A Travel Guide and Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest is the most comprehensive guidebook covering all aspects of Jewish history and contemporary life in Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest. This remarkable book includes detailed histories of the Jews in these cities, walking tours of Jewish districts past and present, intensive descriptions of Jewish sites, fascinating accounts of local Jewish legend and lore, and practical information for Jewish travelers to the region.

Transleithanian Paradise

Transleithanian Paradise
Author: Howard N. Lupovitch
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2022-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1612497810

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Transleithanian Paradise: A History of the Budapest Jewish Community, 1738–1938 traces the rise of Budapest Jewry from a marginal Ashkenazic community at the beginning of the eighteenth century into one of the largest and most vibrant Jewish communities in the world by the beginning of the twentieth century. This was symptomatic of the rise of the city of Budapest from three towns on the margins of Europe into a major European metropolis. Focusing on a broad array of Jewish communal institutions, including synagogues, schools, charitable institutions, women’s associations, and the Jewish hospital, this book explores the mixed impact of urban life on Jewish identity and community. On the one hand, the anonymity of living in a big city facilitated disaffection and drift from the Jewish community. On the other hand, the concentration of several hundred thousand Jews in a compact urban space created a constituency that supported and invigorated a diverse range of Jewish communal organizations and activities. Transleithanian Paradise contrasts how this mixed impact played out in two very different Jewish neighborhoods. Terézváros was an older neighborhood that housed most of the lower income, more traditional, immigrant Jews. Lipótváros, by contrast, was a newer neighborhood where upwardly mobile and more acculturated Jews lived. By tracing the development of these two very distinct communities, this book shows how Budapest became one of the most diverse and lively Jewish cities in the world.

The Sights of Jewish Budapest

The Sights of Jewish Budapest
Author: Tamás Raj
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2007
Genre: Budapest (Hungary)
ISBN:

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Trading in Lives?

Trading in Lives?
Author: Szabolcs Szita
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789637326301

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Set in the tumultuous moments of 1944-45 Budapest, this work discusses the operations of the Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee. Drawing out the contradictions and complexities of the mass deportations of Hungarian Jews during the final phase of World War II, Szita suggests that in the Hungarian context, a commerce in lives ensued, where prominent Zionists like Dr. Rezso Kasztner negotiated with the higher echelons of the SS, trying to garner the freedom of Hungarian Jews. Szita's portrait of the controversial Kasztner is a more sympathetic rendition of a powerful Zionist leader who was later assassinated in Israel for his dealings with Nazi leaders. Szita reveals a story of interweaving personalities and conflicts during arguably the most tragic moment in European history. The author's extensive research is a tremendous contribution to a field of study that has been much ignored by scholarship-the Hungarian holocaust and the trade in human lives.

Jewish Budapest

Jewish Budapest
Author: Julia Kaldori
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2004
Genre: Budapest (Hungary)
ISBN:

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Strangers in Budapest

Strangers in Budapest
Author: Jessica Keener
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2017-11-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 161620768X

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“Jessica Keener has written a gorgeous, lyrical, and sweeping novel about the tangled web of past and present. Suspenseful, perceptive, fast-paced, and ultimately restorative.” —Susan Henderson, author of Up from the Blue Budapest: gorgeous city of secrets, with ties to a shadowy, bloody past. It is to this enigmatic European capital that a young American couple, Annie and Will, move from Boston with their infant son shortly after the fall of the Communist regime. For Annie, it is an effort to escape the ghosts that haunt her past, and Will wants simply to seize the chance to build a new future for his family. Eight months after their move, their efforts to assimilate are thrown into turmoil when they receive a message from friends in the US asking that they check up on an elderly man, a fiercely independent Jewish American WWII veteran who helped free Hungarian Jews from a Nazi prison camp. They soon learn that the man, Edward Weiss, has come to Hungary to exact revenge on someone he is convinced seduced, married, and then murdered his daughter. Annie, unable to resist anyone’s call for help, recklessly joins in the old man’s plan to track down his former son-in-law and confront him, while Will, pragmatic and cautious by nature, insists they have nothing to do with Weiss and his vendetta. What Annie does not anticipate is that in helping Edward she will become enmeshed in a dark and deadly conflict that will end in tragedy and a stunning loss of innocence. Atmospheric and surprising, Strangers in Budapest is, as bestselling novelist Caroline Leavitt says, a “dazzlingly original tale about home, loss, and the persistence of love.”

Great Synagogue of Budapest

Great Synagogue of Budapest
Author: Jennifer Howse
Publisher: Weigl Publishers
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1489626239

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Built in the mid-1800s, the Great Synagogue of Budapest has remained a constant through difficult times. As many as 20,000 Jewish people sought refuge in the synagogue during the Holocaust of World War II. However, the synagogue was also occupied by Nazi forces for part of the war. Explore the facility, history, people, and beliefs behind the building in Great Synagogue of Budapest, a Houses of Faith book.