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‘To compromise and recruit him’ — Secret Service Measures Against Chief Rabbi László Salgó

‘As documented in multiple historical works, Salgó was a state security agent codenamed “György Sárvári”, who reported on people he knew, most notably, Sándor Scheiber. While we do not intend to absolve him of his actions, certain documents may help…

‘Moses’ Reports for Duty — Béla Berend and Communist Hungarian Intelligence in Washington

‘Chief Rabbi Béla Berend was considered a black sheep in the history of Hungarian Jewish leadership. His controversial activities within the Budapest Jewish Council during the German occupation and the Holocaust of 1944–45, followed by his trial before the People’s…

‘The parchment may be burned, but the letters fly away’ — On the Early Career of Rabbi Miklós Murányi

‘Although Miklós Murányi (Menachem Meron) was an important figure in the post-Holocaust recovery and one of the leading Zionist rabbis of the transitional years, his life story remains relatively unknown. The following presents Murányi’s activities during the transitional years (1945–1950),…
Communist leaders Nikita Khrushchev, János Kádár and Leonid Brezhnev hunting in Hungary

Targeting Yad Vashem — How Kádár’s Intelligence Services Tried to Recruit an Israeli Rabbi

This little known case of Hungarian Israeli Rabbi Ottó Komlós not only provides insight into how the Hungarian Communist intelligence services viewed Israel’s most important Holocaust museum and its Hungarian employee, but also highlights the clumsiness of the covert activities…

Facebook Bans Hungarian Pro-Israeli News Site

For reasons unknown, the Facebook page of the Hungarian pro-Israel news website Neokohn.hu was banned by Meta on Sunday. EMIH Chief Rabbi Slomó Köves’ page was also removed. Both pages have since been restored, but the incidents are quite troubling,…
Flowers of remembrance laid on the railway tracks at the former Auschwitz concentration camp on 10 March 2007

The Anti-Communist Rabbi Who Never Returned from Auschwitz

Gábor Deutsch, the staunchly anti-communist Chief Rabbi of Devecser, wrote a study on Judaism and Bolshevism published in 1937 in which his aim was ‘to prove, point by point, that the classical revelations of the Jewish religious ethos, the Scriptures…
Pro-Palestinian protesters storm the runway of the Makhachkala airport in Dagestan, Russia after news that a plane from Tel Aviv had landed on 29 October 2023.

Antisemitic Protests in Dagestan and Across Europe — But Not in Budapest

While in recent weeks Europe was shocked by a series of violent antisemitic protests sparked by the events in the Middle East, the ones in Dagestan, Russia stand out, as they echo the dark history of pogroms….

Chief Rabbi Róbert Frölich Reflects on Israel, the Safety and the Future of Jewish Communities in Hungary

In an interview with Hungarian news website Index, Mazsihisz Chief Rabbi Róbert Frölich declared that Budapest and Hungary as a whole are ‘an island of peace’ for the Jewish community….

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