Szegő Dóra - Szegő György: Synagogues - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2004)

The Kelenföld Competition and the Former Bocskai út Synagogue

these I added much of my own personality and of the age which bred me. [...] Perhaps I am a connecting link between past and present with my works mak­ing up the front that has led from the traditional style of synagogues to a new Hungarian national tendency." The Bethlen tér synagogue was Baumhorn's last sacral building. He died in the summer of 1932, after completing the synagogue. From the 1920s, more and more Jewish institutions moved into the building. Before World War 11, the Association of Israelite Women maintained a soup kitchen and a children's playhouse in it. In 1939, the Office for the Patronage of Hun­garian Israelites set up its offices here. Also, the JOINT self-help organisation of the Hevrah Kaddishah, the Pest Jewish community and the Hungarian Zionist movement was set up here to compensate Hungary’s Jewry for the damages caused by the Anti-Jewish Laws of the period, and operated from voluntary con­tributions. The building was among the temporary hospitals designated by the authorities when the Budapest ghetto was set up in 1944. It was ransacked by the Arrow Cross after Christmas of 1944; those found in the building were locked into the gallery of the synagogue, but many were carried off to be executed, too. Damages sustained during the war were subsequently repaired under the super­vision of Alfréd Hajós. Today the Bérezi Gusztáv Training College for Teachers of Handicapped Children is housed here beside the synagogue. The Kelenföld Competition and the Former Bocskai út Synagogue The one in Bocskai út is the last synagogue of Budapest built before World War II. The Jewry of Kelenföld-Lágymányos (called Szent Imre város or St. Emeric Quarter at the time) had sought to build a great synagogue since the early ■ Béla Lajta'ó competitive design tor the Buda synagogue, 1912 77

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