"The oldest #rabbinical seminary in #Europe stands just a few streets from the #Danube in the heart of #Budapest. It has survived empires, #fascism and #communism. It outlasted the #Nazis, who turned it into #AdolfEichmann's headquarters for organizing the deportation of #Hungarian #Jews to the #deathcamps. It endured four decades of #communist rule as the only #rabbinicalseminary in #EasternEurope. Today, it remains a center of #Jewish learning.
Its story encapsulates one of the great paradoxes of Jewish life in modern Europe.
#Hungary is often described by Jews themselves as one of the safest countries on the continent in which to live openly as Jews.
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Yet Hungary also consistently ranks among the European countries with the highest levels of #antisemitic attitudes."











