Magyarországi Zsidó Hitközségek 1944. április

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independent city belonging to Pest vármegye (département), and its two Jewish communities, the orthodox and the liberal (neológ), belonged to the Pest district (the city itself was joined to the capital only later on) organization. A number of smaller or bigger towns around Budapest proper, now integrated, were independent, too. Outside the capital, cities or towns with* more than one community existing parallel were rather an exception, . Strange enough, later on, after World War II, the April, 1944 census was never mentioned in memoires, nor by the Jewish historiography of the period. In Hungary, nothing more than just a hint of it can be found even in one of Jenő Lévai's extensive writings on events of the Holocaust.

4 A preliminary account of the material discovered in the Hungarian Jewish Archive, written in 1985/86 by Joseph Schweitzer and György Landeszman, was published in Hungarian in the yearbook of the Rabbinical Seminary, Értesítő, in the volume for the years 1985-1991, pp. 85-150, and in English as „Hungarian Jews in the Period between Nazi Occupation and the Beginning of Deportation (19th March, 1944 — 15th May, 1944", in: Remembering for the Future. Papers to be Presented at an International Scholars' Conference to be Held in Oxford, 10-13 July, 1988 (Oxford, etc.: Pergamon Press, 1988), pp. 406^36. The present volume was prepared, on the iniciative of Joseph Schweitzer in October, 1993, in the Center of Jewish Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA Judaisztikai Kutatócsoport), Budapest,. It publishes the full set of data on the file cards. While fully based on the original questionnaire, and publishing every bit of information on the cards, our publication is, in order to make the use of the material for historical and statistical purposes a little more convenient, organized somewhat differently than the original sheets were, perhaps, filed. On pp. 821-822, we publish a photomechanical reproduction, reduced in size, of an original file card, and on pp. 824-829 we repeat, both in the original language (in Hungarian) and in English translation, its questions in a tabellary form used throughout in the publication. In the original archive holding, the cards were filed by vármegyék / départements, and then in alphabetical order. The present volume prints the material in a thoroughgoing alphabetical sequence of the place names, indicating the original vármegye only as a sub-heading. The communities are numbered through and the Indexes at the end of the volume refer always on that running number, 1 to 740. The present publication reproduces every individual questionnaire in tabellary form. Hollow rubrics, that is questions left unanswered, are omitted. A 0 in the tables means that there is no data at this point in the original document. The numerical data in the original are recounted and checked against the subtotals and totals on the sheet in question, and in a few cases small inconsequences and simple arithmetical mistakes are corrected (and printed [in square brackets] to mark them as corrections). All data indicating currency are in pengő (in abbreviated form, where written out: P), the currency used in Hungary at that time. The material was reorganized into this form on computer, first on a dBase IV program, and then edited on the FoxPro for Windows 2.5b program. The final manuscript was edited for publication on Word for Windows 6.0a the The latter one has also provided the raw material for the Indexes. The publication contains the following indexes. Index of communities according to the administrative structure of Hungary (by vármegye / département) (pp. 777-786) Index of communities according to their affiliation: liberal (neológ), orthodox and status quo ante

5 communities (pp. 787-793) Index of community institutions (hospitals, etc.) (p. 794) Index of schools (p. 795) Index of independent community organizations and associations (pp. 796-798) Index of foundations controlled by the community (pp. 799-802) General index of personal names (pp. 803-817) Index of rabbis serving in communities (pp. 818-820) In the two latter indexes, hollow answers like „no president", „no rabbi", „no rabbi-registrar", etc. are registered, too. In the census, 740 Jewish communities in 717 cities, towns and villages are registered. Out of this number, 165 belong to the to the liberal (neológ) organization, 38 are status quo communities, the rest being orthodox. 4 For example, in his Fekete könyv a magyar zsidóság szenvedéseiről (Budapest: Officina, n. d.), p. 104, where the first letter of the Central Council was published again, and in Zsidósors Magyarországon (Budapest: Magyar Téka, 1948), p. 81, where the census was mentioned very briefly. 5 That is, following the ritual of the period before the separation of orthodox and neológ communities on the congress in 1868/69. 887