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

Magyar Zsidó Levéltár (Hungarian Jewish Archives)

The archival material totals 18 running metres. The defective material of the National Bureau (to-day National Representation) of the Hungarian Israelites is preserved from 1868 to 1956. In the material collected from the religious communities the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries are represented in some cases (Baja, Balassagyarmat, Gyöngyös), but the majority is derived from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Cegléd, Esztergom, Jászberény, Kalocsa, Kecskemét, Kiskunhalas, Makó, Paks, Pest, Sárbogárd, Sátoraljaújhely, Székesfehérvár, Szentes, Tab, Tata, etc.). Also the material of some institutions (National Rabbi Training Institute, Israelite Teachers Training Institute, Pest Israelite Girls High School) and associations (Ahavas Reim, National Rabbi Association, Israelite Hungarian Literary Association, National Hungarian Jewish Helping Action, Friends of the Jewish Public School) is preserved in fragments from the twentieth century. Personal and family bequests comprise those of Endre BEREGI, lawyer in Pest, Béla BERNSTEIN, Rabbi in Nyíregyháza, historian, Móricz DERCSÉNYI, teacher of the Rabbi Training Institute, Gyula FISCHER, Rabbi in Pest, Simon GUTTMANN, Rabbi in Szentes, Bernát HELLER, teacher of the Rabbi Training Institute, the Herczog merchant family in Tab, Samu FRANKL, president of the Pest orthodoxy, Ödön KÁLMÁN, Rabbi at Kőbánya, Sándor KÁRMÁN (KLEIN), teacher of religion, Immánuel LOW, Chief Rabbi in Szeged, Orientalist, Dávid PILLITZ, physician, Sándor SCHLESINGER, Chief Rabbi in Debrecen, Ábrahám SINGER, Rabbi, historian, Lajos VENETIANER, Chief Rabbi, Orientalist, Gyula WELLESZ, Chief Rabbi in Óbuda, historian of culture, Adolf WERTHEIM, president of the literary association, Jenő ZSOLDOS, historian of literature, etc., mainly from the twentieth century. The collections of Jenő BÁRKÁNY on the religious communities of Slovakia, of Dezső KOVÁCS on the religious community of Orosháza and of Sándor SALGÓ on the history of the Jews in Szabolcs are also in archival custody. B The research room is open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, but other dates are also possible by appointment. Researchers may use the neighouring National Israelite Library. György LANDESZMAN