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November 20, 1987 - Image 52

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1987-11-20

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survived whose birth year
was between 1929 and 1945.
Those were the children who
were killed during the Nazi
regime. The following genera-
tion has a remarkable hunger
for Jewish identity and
education.

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In Budapest, connected
with the Dohany Street
Synagogue, afternoon Talmud
Torah classes are held three
times a week. The hours are
flexible in order to accom-
modate students coming from
other educational
institutions.
For the Talmud Torah ex-
amination, 340 students from
the country's smaller com-
munities joined religious
students in the capital in the
year-end quiz of Jewish
customs, prayers and history.
Following this closing exer-
cise, everyone is invited to a
three-course midday meal at
the kosher food factory's large
dining room in the Pava utca.
As is the customery holiday
practice of this community —
free of charge — 600 people
were served soup, meat,
vegetables and cake.
Besides the food factory,
there is a kosher community
kitchen in Budapest. The ci-
ty also has two choirs for
religious services and the
Jewish Museum displays ar-
tifacts more than 1,000 years
old.
A center for Jewish studies
was inaugurated in July at
Budapest's Eotvos Lorand
University, the first institute
of its kind in Eastern Europe.
A Jewish weekly, published
in Budapest, Uj Elet, has a
circulation of 7,000. It keeps
memories alive of the once-
flourishing community and
deals with present-day
Judaism in Hungary. It
devotes a considerable
amount of space to children's
interests. In simple language
it explains the meanings of
the holy days, tells children's
stories with a Jewish slant
and offers riddles and puzzles
for young readers.
An increasing number of
articles and books dealing
with the Holocaust is being
published in the Hungarian
press. Recently, the first
Hebrew-Hungarian prayer
book printed since World War
II came off the press.
Another witnesss to the
revival of Hungarian Jewry is
the reprint of one of the most
outstanding Passover Hag-
gadahs ever published in
Hungary. In 1942, braving
the accelerating onslaught of
the fascists, the charity
organization OMZSA, created
to help the suddenly unem-
ployed and unemployable
Jews, published a multi-
colored Hebrew-Hungarian

Haggadah. Writer Szep Erno,
artist Bereny Robert and
Gondor Bertalan, who later
perished in Mauthausen's
death camp, contributed their
designs toward this
masterpiece.
This year, the Budapest rab-
binical seminary — the only
one in Eastern Europe —
ceremoniously ordained four
spiritual leaders. The three
rabbis were Andras Schon-
berger, Isac Fuchs, Jurij Korz-
senevics. Zoltan Jary will
take the positon of pulpit
orator. The festive event was
attended by the official State
Clerical Vice President,
Sarkadi Nagy Barna, and the
entire Hungarian Jewish
community leadership. Also
present were the Chief Rabbi
of Moscow, Adolf Sajevics — a
past student of the institute
— and the chief rabbi of
Rehovot, Israel, Dr. Karoly
Jolesz.
A few months ago in Siofok,
one of the picturesque little
lake resorts, a new synagogue
was dedicated. In Balaton-
fured — a children's Talmud
'Ibrah summer camp has been
established.
While Jews are no longer
afraid to wear pendants in the
shape of the Star of David,
anti-Semitism has not disap-
peared in Hungary. Overt
anti-Semitism is strictly for-
bidden by law, but manifesta-
tions of anti-Jewish feelings
come to the surface in resoun-
ding ways. In a January 1987
soccer game, a microphone in-
advertently left open picked
up the jeering of the 3,000
spectators: "Dir-ty-Jews! —
Dir-ty-Jews!" There are no
Jewish players on the winn-
ing MTK team, although
Jews are among the team's
managers and fans.
There is some movement of
late, toward warming of
Hungarian-Israeli relations
and re-establishment of for-
mal diplomatic relations. The
cultural exchange between
the two countries is a promis-
ing sign. In June, the Israeli
Diaspora Museum, Bet Hatef-
utsot, brought a traveling ex-
hibit to the Hungarian capi-
tal. Photographs of the Israeli
collectors with Hungarian
themes were displayed in
Budapest.
Contrary to practice a few
years back, tourists can now
travel to Israel and visitors
from Israel are welcome in
Hungary.
Beginning this fall, a mon-
thly magazine, Kutfo, appears
as an Israeli-Hungarian co-
production. The glossy liter-
ary periodical is printed in
Tel Aviv.
Israeli humorist Ephraim
Kishon — who was born in
Hungary and emigrated to

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