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Budapest has the biggest Jewish community in Middle - Eastern Europe, with an active religious, artistic and historical heritage. Through centuries the Hungarian and Jewish history has been so entwined that it is almost inseparable. Jews played and play an important role in the country’s economical, cultural and political life.
Tours are in one (English) language, and we try to keep the sightseeing tours with small groups of people. Our English speaking guides are well trained, and have the necessary qualification to help you understand the Jewish past and present in Hungary and in Budapest. To customize your needs we prepared three types of heritage tours.
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| Dohány Street Synagogue |
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The Great Synagogue, also known as Dohány Street Synagogue. It is the largest synagogue in Eurasia and the second largest in the world, after the Temple Emanu-El in New York City. It seats 3,000 people and is a centre of Neolog Judaism. The synagogue was built between 1854 and 1859 in the Moorish Revival style. |
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| Famous Jews |
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Mihály Kertész – who had been already known as Michael Curtiz at that time – once said to his American girlfriend, that he would have married her, but unfortunately he was Jewish, indeed. „I know” – the lady said. „And isn’t it a problem?” – asked the surprised director, who had already experienced antisemitism. |
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| Heritage tour in the spirit of past, present and future |
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Central-East Europe’s largest jewish diaspore can be found in Budapest, which has an active religious heritage. Even so comprehending the Jewry nowadays only as a religion can lead to bias, as for most of the people Jewry appears in the form of nationality, ethnical or cultural identity. The Jewish Heritage tour of the |
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| Memorial center |
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The memorial center is a friendly place, when its subject is not guarantee the joyful entertaining. The most important message of Holocaust is, that Holocaust can never recurrent in no circumstances, its tools are knowledge and remembrance.Though the honest processing of Holocaust era in Hungary started recently, |
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 | Jewish curtural heritage
Religious, artistic and historical heritage. With the help of our English-speaking guide you will be acquainted with the most important chapters of the history and culture of the Hungarian Jewry. The tour includes an interior visit to the Dohány Street Synagogue, which is the largest in Europe. To customize your needs we prepared three types of heritage tours.
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| Budapest then and now |
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17th November, 1874 was the beginning of a new era in the capital city, when Pest, the country's booming trade city united with the ancient Buda. The current image of Budapest was similar then, the main buildings had already occurred, and what is more, population of Pest (200,476) far surpassed all other cities’ in Hungary. |
| ’Child-friendly’ plum cake |
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During the fall, plenty of plums have been sold by the costermongers on the market, so for me it could not be a question from what to make something. First I was wondering if I cook some plum creamsoup, but my two-year-old niece quickly voted me down, so I kept the original plan, the plum cake. We baked it in two, |
| Sir Alexander Korda (1893-1956), |
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He was born to a Jewish family with the name Sándor László Kellner. After elementary school he became a student of the Business High School at Mester Street, this place was where he first met his favourite slogen, ’Sursum corda’ (’Take up your hearts’), which can be an explanation for his later added surname. After the school |
| Endre Kabos (1906-1944), |
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Hungarian fencer; European Champion (sixfold), Olympic Champion (threefold). |
| Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), |
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writer, father of the Zionist movement, creator of the Jewish State. He was born in Budapest; his birthplace was located where nowadays the Jewish Museum can be found, in the Dohány Street (currently). He was educated in Reformed atmosphere (following the modern religious tendency’s characteristics of Hungarian Jews), |
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