6. Haskalah in
Hungary
Initially unlike Germany full confrontation been avoided
Early Clashes occurred over Primary school education for example in Pressburg
Berlin, Hamburg : Prayer Organ. Aharon Chorin(Aarad) ,Mosheh Kunitz(Buda)
9. In 1920
46.3% of the medical doctors,
41.2% of the veterinarians,
21.4% of the pharmacists of Hungary were Jewish, as well as
34.3% of the journalists,
24.5% of performers of music,
22.7% of the theater actors,
16.8% of the painters and sculptors.
Owners of land of more than 1000 hold, i.e. 570 hectares, 19.6%
were Jewish.
Among the 2739 factories in Hungary, 40.5% had a Jewish owner.
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11. The most highly educated group
By 1900 Jews has become the most highly educated group in
Hungary.
Secondary schools
from 5% in 1853 to 20% in 1903
University
from 13% in 1851 to 30% in 1900
Half of the students in Medical faculty
30% of Law faculty were Jewish
12. Budapest
Jews amounted to about one-third of Theresa and Elizabeth
districts.
Elizabeth district
was the most crowded of all, with 67.6 inhabitants per house in
1900(city averag 44.2%)
No Ghetto in Budapest but poorer Jews were living in Ghettolike streets between Carl and Elizabeth(Kiraly street 70%
Jewish)
16. Synagogues – Monuments
Budapest, Kazinczy St - Dob St corner, an orthodox synagogue built by Béla Loeffler
and Sándor Loeffler in 1911-13, in Art Nouveau style
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Hungary: Ratio of persons belonging to the Israelite Church (1900), Scanned and prepared
by János Bogárdi / Radix. March 1999.
The Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, Psychology, By Raphael Patai
Ágai, Adolf. Az örök zsidó. Régi naplók, életképek (1862-1906) [The Eternal Jew: Old Diaries
and Life Sketches (1862-1906)].
Migration Patterns in Late imperial Austria
Between Orthodox Judaism and Neology: The Origins of the Status Quo Movement
Howard Lupovitch
