Research in Jewish studies

Project namePrincipal investigatorPeriodFunding agencyParticipants
Research on Jewish cemeteries in HungaryViktória Bányaicontinuous Szilvia Kormos (independent researcher), István Balogh (Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies), Attila Marossy (website administrator)
Publication of the correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher with Immanuel LöwTamás Turán2023-Library of the Hungarian Academy of SciencesKinga Dévényi (Library of the HAS, Keeper of Oriental Collection)
History of ideas, religion and scholarship of Hungarian Neolog JewryTamás Turán   
Jewish Identities in Hungary from the End of the Eighteenth Century until 1918Miklós Konrád (HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities Institute of History)2022-2026NRDIO K 143231Viktória Bányai, Erzsébet Mislovics, Anikó Prepuk, Gábor Schweitzer, Máté Tamás, Zsuzsanna Toronyi
Holocaust survivor children in HungaryViktória Bányai  Rita Horváth
Parchments of Memory - the Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr in Paris 1956Paul Gradvohl2022-2026Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives (Budapest), Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris)Viktória Bányai, László Csősz, Kinga Frojimovics
Completed research projects
Jewish scout organizations: their history and memoryViktória Bányai2018-2021Jewish Heritage in Hungary Public EndowmentAndrás Lénárt (Holocaust Memorial Center), Eszter Gombocz (John Wesley Theological College), Kata Vörös (Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies), Bálint Szegedi (Scout Association)
Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary: Orphanages, Schools, MemoryViktória Bányai2019-2021Association of Persecutees of Nazism, JDC HungaryKinga Frojimovics (Wiener Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies), András Lénárt (Holocaust Memorial Center), Eszter Gombocz (John Wesley Theological College), Kata Vörös (Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies), Gábor Dombi (Jewish Theological Seminary - University of Jewish Studies PhD Student)
The Jewish Heritage of SzegedVera Ábrahám, Dóra Pataricza2017-2021Rothschild Foundation (2018-2019); Interreg Danube Transnational Programme (2018–2021): REDISCOVERViktória Bányai, Zsolt Urbancsok, Mercédesz Czimbalmos, Gabriella Kádas, Tamás Németh, Norbert Glässer
The Political Contexts of the Hungarian Jewish Congress (1868-69) and SplitTamás Turán2019-2020  
Kinship and business. A Microhistory of a Jewish Family in the 19th Century Habsburg MonarchyMáté Tamás2015-2020PhD research 
Migration, Mobility, and Acculturation in the Jewish Community of a South-West Hungarian Town in the Mid 19th CenturyMáté Tamás2018-2019MTA-SYLFF 
Jewish education and children’s institutions in Hungary 1945-1956Viktória Bányai2014-2017Bolyai Research Fellowship 
Jewish communities in territories annexed from HungaryViktória Bányai, Szonja Komoróczy2012-2013Rothschild FoundationCsilla Fedinec, Veronika Gayer
Hebrew codex fragments in Hungary’s public collectionsTamás Turán2010-2015OTKA NN79933András Kövér, Judit Lászlók, Ágnes Tolnai
The history of Yiddish culture in HungarySzonja Komoróczy2009-2018  
Hebrew sources relating to the history of Hungary and of Hungarian Jewry   Viktória Bányai, Géza Komoróczy, Szonja Komoróczy