(JTA) — As many as 50,000 Jews traveled to a Hungarian town for the anniversary of a noted rabbi’s death this week, marking significant growth for the annual pilgrimage and generating what the ...

In what many are calling a historic moment for Jewish life in eastern Hungary, the city of Debrecen will soon be home to a new mikveh (ritual bath) after Mayor László Papp transferred a ...

That decision made it harder for some lawsuits to be tried in U.S. courts over claims that property was taken from Jews ...

Collaborating with Nazi Germany, the Hungarian government nationalized the property of Hungarian Jews and sent them on cattle cars to death camps; MAV, the national railway, took property from them ...

Hungary had laws already on the books that made Jews second-class citizens, like those that permitted universities to accept only 6% of Jewish students, no matter how capable they were.

Between May 15 and July 9, 1944 — a span of eight weeks — German and Hungarian officials deported approximately 420,000 Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz. Seventy-five percent were gassed upon ...