Putnok

[edit] Jews lived there at the beginning of the 20th century, but this community was only established as a religious community in 1852. At the same time, their chevra kadisha was also organized. There are gravestones with older dates in their cemetery. The first rabbi of the religious community was Braun Salamon, who served until his death in 1873. Their synagogue was built in 1866. Many buildings of the religious community were located on the large plot of the synagogue. Here was the rabbi's house, the poultry kosher slaughterhouse, the elementary school, the teacher's apartment and the Talmud-Torah building. The community's mikveh was in a separate building. Chevra kadisha, who practiced lively charity, had a foundation house on the main street. The previous leadership of the Youth Association also performed commendable work in the social and charitable field. The religious community organized its elementary school in 1875, where Hungarian was the language of instruction from the beginning. In addition to the teacher, the religious community has two religious teachers, Talmud-Torah melamed, clerk, etc. volt. After the death of their first rabbi, they elected the famous Rabbi Jacob Tannenbaum, born in Szendrő, who had previously been the rabbi of the religious community in Tállya from 1858 to 1869, and then from 1869 to 1873 in Mezőcsát. He established a yeshiva, very popular at the time, whose students (more than 150) were cared for by members of the religious community. After his death in 1879, his son Rabbi Márton Tannenbaum was elected. After the death of Rabbi Márton Tannenbaum, his son-in-law, Heiman Teitelbaum, the rabbi of Kaba, is elected. The highly popular rabbi was surrounded with love by his followers. During Hitler's times, the chief sergeant in Putnok was the extremely sarcastic Mogyorósi, who interned many Putnok Jews in the Garany internment camp using various pretexts. Naturally, he also interned the rabbi of the religious community. The rabbi's son-in-law, Rabbi Lipa Groszman (lived in Petach Tikva) also shared this fate. The rabbi was taken by the death train to Auschwitz - together with his followers, they gave their lives for their Jewishness. putnok Jewish synagogue

[edit] See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Hungary Putnok is twinned with: Fécamp, France Ludgeřovice, Czech Republic Nowy Żmigród, Poland Tisovec, Slovakia Tornaľa, Slovakia