10 Friday, January 6, 1984

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Hungarian Jewry Doing Well Behind Iron Curtain

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This is my holy sport," he
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tributed pieces of halla to
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the Sabbath bread with un-
erring accuracy to those
some distance from him.
The atmosphere was
charged with warm fellow-
ship and religious commun-
ion; the effect was that of a
large close-knit family
rather than the assemblage
of hundreds of individuals.
The Jews of Hungary
indeed seem to be living
the good life in a Socialist
state, and they are the
envy of their co-
religionists in the other
Eastern European coun-
tries. It is estimated that
there are 80,000 Jews in
Hungary with more than
three-quarters residing
in Budapest; there are
more rabbis and more
active synagogues here
than in all the other
Soviet-dominated na-
tions combined.
, But, above all, the semi-
nary is the special pride of
Jewish Hungary. It was
founded in 1877 by Emperor
Franz Josef I, and is the only
state rabbinical seminary
in the world, according to
Scheiber, who has been its
director since 1950. There
are currently students from
East Germany, Czechos-
lovakia, the Soviet Union,
and, of course, from Hun-
gary itself, who are trained
to become rabbis, cantors, or
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ern Europe.
Besides the secondary
school, there is a center of
adult education and well-
known choir. It receives fi-
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government, the Jewish
community and the Memo-
rial Foundation for Jewish
Culture founded by Nahum
Goldmann to maintain in-
tellectual life in the Eastern
Jewish world.
Scheiber indicated that
relations with the gov-
ernment were "excel-
lent" and that he deals
most amicably with its
Bureau of Religious Af-
fairs. He revealed that
next year, on the 40th an-
niversary of the deporta-
tion of Hungarian Jews,
the government will, for
the first time, permit
many thousands to visit
Israel and will also wel-
come Israelis of Hunga-
rian descent.
One of the largest
synagogues in the world is
the Dohany Synagogue in
the -very center of town,
which has a seating
capacity of 3,300 and at-
tracts, on major holidays, an
overflow audience of more
than 5,000. The 124-year-
old edifice is flanked by a
smaller synagogue which
attracts some 200 congreg-
ants for the regular Sabbath
services.
Chief Rabbi of the
Dohany Synagogue and also
Chief Rabbi of Hungary, Dr.
Shalgo has been a member
of the Hungarian Parlia-
ment since 1980 (according
to Shalgo, there are other
Jews in Parliament, but
these are unaffiliated with
the community) and has
been closely identified with
government leaders.
He hopes to visit Israel,
for the first time, in 1984 on
the occasion of the 40th an-
niversary of the deporta-
tion. "Life here is good for
Jews, they are not beggars,
but make good livings in all
kinds of enterprises," he in-
sisted. It appears that rela-
tions between Dohany
Street- and the rabbinical
seminary are rather formal
and that the two operate as
separate and distinct fief-
doms.
A visit to the Jewish
cemetery in the suburbs
revealed an impressive
memorial to the
Holocaust victims, 75 feet
high and 40 feet broad
and flanked by a stone
pergola with nine col-
umns listing the names of
Hungarian Jews exter-
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War II.
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Zionism in the media, it ap-
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