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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.

*Begin at the square where the father of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, was born.



*Explore the Dohány Street Synagogu e, 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 .



*Discover the history of the Status Quo Ante stream of Judaism while observing the Rumbach Street Synagogue .



*We will conclude our tour reflecting at the Shoes on the Danube Bank memorial . This is a space to remember the Jewish lives lost here and to consider the revitalization of Budapest’s Jewish community today.