Szegedi Zsidó Hitközség Archívuma

The Szeged Jewish Community’s Archive (SzJCA) has a complex and nuanced history that reflects the broader historical context of Hungary and the Jewish community. The archive was founded in the early 1990s by a group of local Jewish activists who sought to document and preserve the cultural heritage of the Jewish community in Szeged. Over the years, the SzJCA has accumulated a rich collection of materials, including photographs, documents, and manuscripts, related to the history of Jewish life in Szeged and the surrounding region. For the history of the archive, see: https://doi.org/10.56664/targum.2022.2.9

The spectrum of the archive is vast, containing official and private documents from a period of almost 200 years. The project vastly contributes to the availability of rare primary sources in the fields of Hungarian and Jewish history, as well as the history of economic development of Central and Eastern Europe. The archive contains various record groups of the Neolog Community of Szeged. It also contains various writings of the former rabbis and significant members, e.g. Lipót and Immánuel Löw, Jenő Frenkel, and Immánuel Zucker, as well as the families Holtzer, Back, Kotányi, Pick. The surviving records of the Orthodox Congregation of Szeged are also kept in the Community. The documents of the Szeged Jewish community are the remaining chronicles of the history of the community as well as records of the connections to almost all other Jewish communities of Hungary and other foreign Jewish communities and the majority population. The Szeged Jewish Community and its Archive also have various documents and vital registers of nearby Jewish communities (such as e.g. Szentes and Csongrád).

The archive seeks to acquire archival materials by gift and it is carrying out actively rescue work for documents and records related to Szeged's Jewish history and that of its surrounding.

Headquarter of the Szeged Jewish Community, 3rd floor

The archive contains the documents of the Neolog Community of Szeged (for a detailed list (in Hungarian), see: https://szegedjewisharchive.org/fond-jegyzek/): vital records conscription records documents of various associations within the community family documents testaments voter registration records obituaries speeches list of deportees and of those who returned brit milah certificates school records maps diaries cemetery records etc. various papers of the former rabbis and significant members (e.g. Lipót and Immánuel Löw, Jenő Frenkel, Immánuel Zucker) papers of the industrial families Holtzer, Back, Kotányi, Pick Records of the Orthodox Congregation of Szeged besides written documents, the archive also contains: paintings photos music sheets statues LP records, CDs, cassettes inscriptions on various materials such as wooden nameplates, marble plates board games from 1854

for a detailed list (in Hungarian), see: https://szegedjewisharchive.org/fond-jegyzek/ the deportation list has been published: https://szegedjewisharchive.org/deportalasi-lista/ The deportation list and the list of survivors has been shared with USHMM, Arolsen Archives and Jewishgen.