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Unnepi Imadsagok. Ros-hasano Unnep Elso Napjara.
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]M2019/018
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Unnepi Imadsagok. Ros-hasano Unnep Elso Napjara.
[nb-NO]Creator[nb-NO] Jos Schlesinger (printer)
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]High holiday prayer book for the first day of Rosh Ha-Shannah, printed around 1880, that belonged to holocaust survivor Vera Seder’s grandmother, Matild Erdos (Vera’s mother’s name was Ilona Erdos).
The Soviets occupied Hungary after World War II and supported installation of a Communist government. Around 1946/47 the Communist Party ordered that religious books be handed in; “the Russians said no prayer books allowed”. Vera Seder (nee Gardos) was 13 or 14 at the time. A special unit arrived with Hungarian communists at her house. They pulled the books off the shelves, placed them in a bag and burned them in the street. Vera’s grandmother, Matild, hid her prayer books under the settee (sofa/pulldown bed).
Under the communists, no prayer books were allowed and the churches and synagogues were boarded up. Jewellery, except for wedding rings, was also forbidden, including religious items of jewellery (e.g. crosses and stars of David).
Vera was 14 when her grandmother decided to wear black in 1948 when her husband died (both had survived the war in the Budapest ghetto). Vera obtained the book on one of her visits back to Hungary. She has donated it to the Musuem saying, “my son doesn’t want it. My daughter-in-law doesn’t want it. I have no one to give it to. I can’t throw it out. It went through so much, it really survived a lot. They wanted to burn it. It wants to survive. It must be 100 years old or more.”
The Soviets occupied Hungary after World War II and supported installation of a Communist government. Around 1946/47 the Communist Party ordered that religious books be handed in; “the Russians said no prayer books allowed”. Vera Seder (nee Gardos) was 13 or 14 at the time. A special unit arrived with Hungarian communists at her house. They pulled the books off the shelves, placed them in a bag and burned them in the street. Vera’s grandmother, Matild, hid her prayer books under the settee (sofa/pulldown bed).
Under the communists, no prayer books were allowed and the churches and synagogues were boarded up. Jewellery, except for wedding rings, was also forbidden, including religious items of jewellery (e.g. crosses and stars of David).
Vera was 14 when her grandmother decided to wear black in 1948 when her husband died (both had survived the war in the Budapest ghetto). Vera obtained the book on one of her visits back to Hungary. She has donated it to the Musuem saying, “my son doesn’t want it. My daughter-in-law doesn’t want it. I have no one to give it to. I can’t throw it out. It went through so much, it really survived a lot. They wanted to burn it. It wants to survive. It must be 100 years old or more.”
[nb-NO]Production place[nb-NO]Hungary
[nb-NO]Date[nb-NO] 1880 - 1946
[nb-NO]Subject[nb-NO]post World War II, Communists, Judaica
[nb-NO]Object name[nb-NO]prayer books
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]paper
[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]
- whole width: 130.00 mm
height: 182.00 mm
depth: 11.00 mm
width: 270.00 mm
[nb-NO]Credit line[nb-NO]Sydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Vera Seder