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Finding My People
In A Foreign Lan

!though I admit to not be- a vibrant Jewish community
ing particularly pious, for more than 700 years ago.
some reason whenever I Through the ages, its denizens
experienced endemic and
travel, I get religion.
violent anti-Semitism,
Whether it is my own
personal need to connect or The D ohany pogroms and expulsion. At
Str eet
simply curiosity as to Synag ogue, other times, they enjoyed
equal rights, positions of
where the remote reaches
Buda pest.
importance in government,
of the Diaspora cast my
finance and professions.
people, I choose to seek
Even Empress Maria There-
them out. And I have found that
no matter where Jews were dis- sa, whose hatred of Jews is leg-
persed and however well they im- endary, cultivated wealthy
pregnated themselves with the members of the Jewish commu-
identity of their host nation, they nity; and it was her son who
maintained, in many ways, their brought about their emancipa-
tion. The ghetto walls came down
own identity.
I have attended Friday in 1848 and the Habsburgs even-
evening services at Congregation tually elevated 346 Jewish fam-
Nidhe Israel, the newly restored ilies to nobility.
It was during this time that
Bridgetown Synagogue in Bar-
bados, whose origins go back to the Dohany Street Synagogue,
1654. I have toured Jewish hous- the longest and largest in Europe
es of worship in Rome, Florence and one of the largest in the
and Venice, where the first ghet- world, was built. This impressive
to was created. I've spent Shab- Moorish-style building with its
bat at shul in St. Thomas; visited two high towers seated more
a dig on the island of Nevis, than 3,300. It had four balconies
where the remains of a ritual and a giant organ with over 5,000
bath were discovered and clinibed pipes which was played by Liszt
to the women's gallery in the Or- and Saint-Saens. The Nazis sur-
thodox Great Synagogue in rounded the synagogue with a
wooden fence and created the Bu-
Jerusalem.
And through my travels, I dapest Ghetto in 1943. They sys-
have learned that Jews, no mat- tematically murdered almost
ter how culturally ingrained in a 600,000 of the 900,000 Hungari-
society, create their own shtetls. an Jews.
Today there are perhaps
I saw this most recently in Bu-
dapest, the flamboyant, roman- 100,000 Jews and 19 synagogues
tic capital of Hungary which had in Budapest. But it is to the Great

