Bethlen Square Synagogue
The Bethlen Square Synagogue ( Hungarian Bethlen téri zsinagóga ; also: Bethlen téri Status-quo Ante Körzet és Zsinagóga) is a synagogue on Bethlen-Gabor Square in Budapest .
location
Bethlen-Gabor-Platz is a square in the VII district of Budapest . The VII. Budapest district is called Elisabethstadt (Hungarian: Erzsébetváros). There was a Jewish quarter here before the Second World War and a Jewish ghetto during the German occupation . Today (2017) there are several synagogues, Jewish restaurants, kosher shops, Jewish bookshops and other Jewish institutions in Elisabethstadt . The István utca cuts through the Bethlen Gabor space diagonally from southwest to northeast. The synagogue is located on the northeast corner of the square. Your address is István utca 15.
history
In 1920 a large building in the eclectic style was built on the northeast side of Bethlen-Gabor-Platz . The synagogue is located in the left part of this building, the rest of which served and serves other purposes. Its religious orientation was committed to the status quo ante, hence the name Bethlen-Platz-status-quo-ante-Synagoge.
status quo ante
Until 1868/69 in Hungary orthodox and neologous (in Hungary reform Jews are called neolog) Jews used the same synagogues. They held their services in different rooms or at different times. There was no real split between these two directions and every Jew was free to go either to one or the other. In 1868/69 the Great National Israelite Congress took place in Hungary. As a result of this congress, the Hungarian Jews split in three directions: neology, orthodoxy and status quo ante. The direction of the status quo ante wanted to maintain the situation before Congress, i.e. before the split. She refused to participate in the dispute between neologists and orthodox.
1944 to 1945
In 1944, a Jewish hospital under the protection of the International Red Cross was set up in this building, the left part of which houses the synagogue . The hospital was managed by Dr. Dénes Fuchs and Dr. János Biedermann, equipped with holdings from Dr. Adolf Weiss. It had 350 beds. Patients treated here were not taken to the Budapest ghetto . On December 28, 1944, the hospital was attacked by members of the SS and other Nazis . 24 men were murdered, the facilities devastated and many injured. Apart from this attack, the patients and staff survived the Holocaust.
After 1945
After the end of the Second World War, the building was used by the American Joint Distribution Committee (DEGOB) to supply deported Hungarians. University facilities later moved in. Today (2017) it houses the American McDaniel College.
rabbi
From 1988 until his death in 2015, Grand Rabbi Robert Deutsch was rabbi of the Bethlen-Platz synagogue. He was followed by his son Peter Deutsch.
Web links
- Bethlen Platz Synagogue (accessed March 19, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/article/view/id/16758
- ↑ http://rooksack.de/juedisches-viertel-budapest/
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- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Julia Richters: Jewish Budapest. Cultural topographies of a township in the 19th century. Life worlds of Eastern European Jews. , Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar Vienna, 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20471-6 , pp. 17, 105, 230
- ↑ Howard Lupovitch: Between Orthodox Judaism and Neology: The Origins of the status quo Movement in Jewish Social Studies, 2.9 (Winter 2003) pp 123-153
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- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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- ↑ http://mcdaniel.hu/
- ↑ http://zsido.com/elhunyt-deutsch-robert-neolog-forabbi/
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Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 13.8 ″ N , 19 ° 4 ′ 47.7 ″ E