Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

II Upland Market Town - II-8 Merchant's House from Mád

II 11-8 Merchant's house from Mád 'We are in the same place, like the Jew from Mád'.' The Jew of the proverb set off to the market at night, by cart. He fell asleep and his horses turned back at the crossroads, so when he woke, he found himself at home. Once a Jewish family lived in the reconstructed house from Mád. At the end of the 19th century 30% of the local population was Jewish. They earned their living mainly by trading grapes and wine and were in close contact with the Christian inhabitants. The stone building was possibly constructed in the late 18th century. Under the house there is a cellar in which a tavern is run. The furnishings are typical of late 19th shows the Jewish tenants living in the first dwelling quartet; which is connected to their chandler's shop. The most significant religious symbol found in Jewish homes is the mesusa. The small board fixed to the door-post descentury market towns, middleclass homes where the signs of the impoverishment following the vine-pest are not present yet. The museum display