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EXCURSIONS
November 24, 2011
Walking tour
The Historic Jewish District
and the Former Ghetto Area
Interested Jewish Studies
students are invited to join a walking tour to Budapest's
seventh district, guided by Borbála Klacsman. We will
visit, among other sites, Dohany Street Synagogue, Heroes'
Cemetery and Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Park, Carl Lutz
Memorial, Rumbach Synagogue, Kiraly Street and the Memorial
at the remnants of the ghetto wall.
2:00 PM, CEU Monument
Building, V., Octogon, Nádor St. 9
 October
9-10, 2011
Field trip
Western Slovakia
Students and faculty
from the Jewish Studies programs at Central European University,
Eötvös Lorant University (Budapest) and Palacký University
(Olomouc, Czech Republic) took a two-day field trip to
Jewish heritage sites in Western Slovakia. We visited
the former synagogues of Stupava, Malacky, Senec, Trnava,
Nitra, and ©urany, discovering monuments in various styles
from Baroque to Bauhaus that bear witness to the religious
and everyday life of all three Jewish currents that existed
in the former Kingdom of Hungary. After staying overnight
in Trnava, home to an important medieval Jewish community,
we visited the Jewish cemeteries and Holocaust memorial
sites at Sereď, Nitra and Nové Zámky. In the latter locality,
we enjoyed the hospitality of one of the last remaining
Jewish communities of the region, whose members shared
their personal recollections with us while guiding us
through their cemetery, synagogue and community building.
7:00 AM in front of the
Mátyás Pince, V., Március 15 Sq. 7.
 March
17, 2011
Walking tour
The Medieval Jewish Quarters on Buda Hill: Recent Archaeological
Excavations
Dr. András Végh, archaeologist
at the Budapest Historical Museum, shows and explains
the remains of the 13th-14th century Jewish residential
quarter, its synagogue and ritual bath, which were discovered
in the course of two archaeological digs he led on the
western side of Szt. György Street in 1998-2000 and in
2004-2005. We then visit the 15th century Jewish quarter
and synagogue on Táncsics Mihály Street. The tour is part
of Prof. Carsten Wilke's MA seminar "Introduction
to Medieval Jewish Civilization".
9:00 AM in front of the
Korona Cukrászda, I, Dísz Sq.
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