Magyarországi Zsidó Hitközségek 1944. április
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The Index lists some 170 rabbis by name. The Jewish population registered in the census is 514603 persons, including the communities in the capital. Source criticism and historical study have to correct or adjust this number. The introduction to the present volume, signed by Joseph Schweitzer and György Landeszman, is a reproduction of their original paper from 1985-1991, now edited, with some corrections and additions, by Joseph Schweitzer, and omitting from the preliminary report passages that were related to the sample edition published in Évkönyv , 1985-1991. In the Appendix the present volume, in addition to the census material, publishes all available official lists reflecting the inner administrative structure of Hungarian Jewish communities' organizations from the period after the emancipation law (1867: xvn.) until the years after World War II. These lists are collected here for the first time and are edited from printed and archive sources by Kinga Frojimovics. The lists reflect the hierarchy of Jewish communities' ( hitközség) organization. Levels of hierarchy are as follows: District ( községkerület ), matriculation community (anyahitközség, 'mother community'), subordinated community (fiókhitközség, 'branch community'). Such lists are published here from the years as follows: 1868: districts (községkerület) (26) 1885: matriculation communities (anyaköny\'i kerület / anyahitközség) (465) 1889: matriculation communities (489) 1921: districts (13) 1947: communities (hitközség) (263), comprising Jews living in additional 667 places 1949: communities and Budapest temple districts (templomkörzet) (256), comprising all together 96 500 persons in the capital (1946) and 37 100 persons in the province (1949), less than 135 000 counted together 1950: districts belonging to the liberal (neológ) communities' organization (6); liberal (neológ) communities by districts (46), their branches (50), (split communities) of communities (289) and of branches (35) A comparison of the administrative division lists and lists of communities from the period before and after World War II, respectively, will throw light on the tragic dimensions of the destruction during the final period of the Holocaust. The trend of decrease in numbers of communities was going on in the years and decades after World War II until very recently. According to recent lists of communities, published year by year in the current Luahs, only some 20 communities survived until the present. Only recently has been a new community established. For his advises and help during the work on the present volume, the editors and the Center of Jewish Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are grateful to Professor Yehuda Don of the Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel). * Call for papers Since the Jewish Council census is the very last documentary evidence on the Jewish communities in Hungary before the final destruction, and the only one of such scale and comprehensiveness known from any country occupied by Nazi Germany in World War II, the publication of its data is, as we hope, going to meet with general interest. The editors of the volume call for papers analyzing the material of the census from any possible point of view. Papers written on the census, analyzing its data, or the circumstances, etc. will be published in a second volume of the present publication: Part II. Analysis. Circumstances and direct background of the census Names of community institutions Names of rabbis Prosopography and / or biography of rabbis concerned Statistics of affiliation orthodox / liberal (neológ) / status quo distribution Structure of community leadership 888
