Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

Magyar Zsidó Levéltár (Hungarian Jewish Archives)

Association, Sándor Bölöni Farkas Craftsmen's Circle, Women's League, Maiden's Association) and of the Unitarian press (Unitarian Bulletin 19201944, Unitarian Life, from 1948) are preserved by the archives. Among the bequests we mention the collection of István ZSAKÓ (19201970) to a Hungarian Unitarian Encyclopaedia and that of Imre BOTÁR (1920-1965) to the history of the Unitarian Church. The research room is open from 5 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. János SZÁSZ MAGYAR ZSIDÓ LEVÉLTÁR (HUNGARIAN JEWISH ARCHIVES) 1085 BUDAPEST, József krt. 27. Tel. 342-121. Archivist: György LANDESZMAN Prior to World War II almost all of the Jewish religious communities of Hungary possessed arranged archives, several of them with a material reaching back to 200 years. It was with the help of these that the monographs of various religious communities were written, almost fifty in number. The archival material of religious communities of the country, depopulated in consequence of the German occupation and deportation, was almost completely annihilated. People returning after the war found ransacked synagogues and burned offices. There were also exceptions: the records of the Baja, Debrecen, Miskolc, Pécs and Szeged religious communities were saved wholly or in the major part. Also a considerable portion of the archives of the Budapest religious community was saved from destruction. The gathering of archival material begun in 1970. The National Rabbi Training Institute offered two rooms for it. The work was supported by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. The undersigned and the pupils of the National Rabbi Training Institute go to the country regularly, in order to save single records, sometimes volumes.