A Journey through Jewish Budapest - Walking Tour
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.
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What's included in A Journey through Jewish Budapest - Walking Tour
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Great / Central Synagogue (Nagy Zsinagoga)
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.
Kazinczy Street Synagogue
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.
Rumbach Street Synagogue
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.
Inclusions
- 3-hour guided walking tour
- Historian guide
- Food and drinks
- Dohány Synagogue, Rumbach Street Synagogue, & Kazincky Street Synagogue Tickets
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Please note that visitors to the Dohány and Kazinczy Synagogues are requested to have their shoulders and knees covered.
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Pickup and Dropoff
You can choose to be picked up from a list of locations, or alternatively, have the choice to make your own way to the meeting points
Please arrive at the pick up point 5 minutes before departure time.
Additional Information
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.
Meeting Points
- A cafe right opposite the Great Synagogue. You will recieve your guide's photo, phone and bio after booking.
End Points
- 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.
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Ticket Redemption
Your tour guides are professors, doctoral students, historians, journalists, art critics, and published authors.