Faurest, Kristin: Ten spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)
Teleki László tér
called The Price of Gold, plays out in the Teleki market. The protagonist of the fable is a famous merchant on the market who buys up gold after the war to ensure his future. Gradually with time his business begins to fail and the Socialist state's interference makes it worse. He closes his store, retreats and hides the gold that he considers to be the last value in a deteriorating world. Years later, he decides to rejoin society and try his hand at business again, trying to cheat fate. Teleki tér has a distinctive history, too, in Budapest's Jewish life, as the market historically had a significant number of Jewish merchants. Commerce and piety took place not far from each other; one of the community's prayer houses, at number 22 is the location of the city’s only Sephardic rite, and is an Orthodox prayer house. It originally was the home of Galician Jews and got its name from Czertkow or Csortkov, the city in Ukraine. Jews first came ■ The square's mature trees are its greatest asset 45
