Jewish History and Heritage Walking Tour of Budapest
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Jewish History and Heritage Walking Tour of Budapest

3 h
By walk
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About this activity
Major sites of this walk can include:

1. Buda Castle and Medieval Jewry

As a non ­European medieval dynasty, the Árpáds, rulers of the Kingdom of Hungary between the 10th and 14th centuries, had surprisingly tolerant attitude towards the Jews in their midst, who lived alongside the Magyars right from the time of arrival of these nomadic tribes into the Carpathian basin. From 1100 to 1200, there was continuous Jewish settlement side by side with the emergence of Buda Castle Hill as the center of political power. Archival reconstructions conducted just a few years ago can give us an exciting glimpse of remnants of the synagogue that was built here by the city’s Medieval Jewish community.

2. Óbuda Synagogue

The impressive classicist synagogue, built and consecrated in 1821 was a proof of the affluence and influence of the contemporary Altofen community, and continues to be a strong early mark of the strong Jewish community that flourished in Hungary in the following decades.

3. Lipótváros/Dohány Street

After the civic emancipation of Hungary’s Jews (1868), Pest­Buda began a surprisingly swift transition into a unified and modern city (renamed Budapest after its official unification in 1873). The Lipótváros district emerged as the city’s new financial center, with grandiose banks, the Pest Stock Exchange. The formation of a Jewish upper­class bourgeoisie is encapsulated in the Dohány Synagogue (1859), the greatest Jewish place of worship in Europe, and the building that inspired Manhattan’s Central Syangogue.

4. Király utca promenade/Teleki tér

Tours of Budapest’s Jewish history often ignore the Jewish immigrants/underclass. But in fact the majority of Budapest’s Jewish population lived the VII.­VIII. districts as a small and European ­style humble lower class. A significant influx of Eastern Jewish refugees during the First World War created new centers that were very different from the opulent neighbourhoods of established Hungarian Jews. We can visit small Hasidic shtibls and Sephardic­rite prayer ­houses which still surround the market where peddlers, petty­ traders operated during the inter war period.

5. Újlipótváros/Pest Ghetto

Until 1943 Jews of Budapest were in a relatively protected position compared to Eastern European Jews in general or Hungarian Jews elsewhere. Yet in October 1944, with the rest of the city’s citizens, they endured a Soviet siege, the Nazi and Hungarian Arrow Cross mass killings, and the coldest winter of the war.
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Included
  • 3-hour guided walking tour
  • Historian guide
Not included
  • Food and drinks
  • Synagogue entry fees: Dohány Synagogue Tickets: Individual: 4000Ft Students and seniors: 3000Ft Rumbach Street Synagogue Tickets: Individual: 500Ft Students and seniors: 300Ft Kazincky Street Snagogue Tickets: Individual, students & seniors: 1000Ft
Additional
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Please note that the Rumbach Synagogue in closed for renovation until October 2018 and your guide will be visiting a different site with you if you travel during that period.
  • Please note that visitors to the Dohány and Kazinczy Synagogues are requested to have their shoulders and knees covered.
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Tourism
90%
Cultural
80%
Sport
15%
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