This 3-hour Jewish Budapest tour follows the varied history of a thriving Jewish community that made up nearly one-fourth of the Hungarian capital’s population before WWII. While exploring Budapest’s Jewish District, our Jewish Studies scholar guide will explain how from the 18th century, Budapest’s Jews played a profound role in the social and economic modernization of the city. As we consider the essential cultural contributions of Budapest’s Jewish citizens, we also reflect on their harrowing persecution, culminating in 20th-century genocide in the Holocaust. As we pass by kosher pastry shops and restaurants, we will ponder the ways the community and its culture are being revitalized today.
Kamara Café, Dohány u. 1a, 1074 Budapest - a cafe right opposite the Great Synagogue. You will recieve your guide's photo, phone and bio after booking.
A cafe right opposite the Great Synagogue. You will recieve your guide's photo, phone and bio after booking.
The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial erected on April 16 2005 to honour the Jews who were massacred during WWII. They were ordered to take off their shoes, and were shot at the edge of the water.
Explore the Dohány Street Synagogue, the largest temple in Europe, with the assistance of a Jewish Studies Scholar. Take in the lavish, Moorish Revival style before visiting the Temple of Heroes, the Jewish Museum, and a Memorial Park, all within the complex.
Walk to the neighboring Ghetto Wall Memorial, erected in 2014, before passing a luxurious Mikve (or Jewish ritual bath) and continuing to the Art Nouveau orthodox synagogue on Kazinczy Street. We visit the interior of the synagogue when open to the public.
Discover the history of the Status Quo Ante stream of Judaism while observing the Rumbach Street Synagogue. We visit the interior of the synagogue when open to the public.
Conclude paying our rspects at the Shoes on the Danube Bank, a memorial erected on April 16 2005, to honour the Jews who were massacred here during WWII. They were ordered to take off their shoes, and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away. It represents their shoes left behind on the bank.
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