Pápa, Hungary Picture of Papa, Veszprem County

Pápa, Hungary Picture of Papa, Veszprem County City in Veszprém county, Hungary. In the first half of the nineteenth century, Pápa was home to one of the largest and most important Jewish communities in Hungary. Situated favorably at the crossroads between north and south in Transdanubia, Pápa was designated as a “privileged market town” that belonged to a branch of the Esterházy family. Since before 1840 Jews were excluded from most of the “royal free or privileged cities,” it was in noble-owned, large market towns such as Pápa that they flourished. The population was primarily Hungarian with a sizable Calvinist and Lutheran minority alongside the Roman Catholic majority. The Pápa fair attracted merchants from the mercantile centers to the north and west Pressburg, Györ, and Sopron—who bought up agricultural produce from the southern counties.The Jewish community was founded formally in 1749 on the basis of privileges issued by the Esterházy counts. The community grew rapidly: by the 1830s it numbered 2,600 Jews, constituting about 20 percent of the town’s population, and was the fifth-largest community in Hungary. The rabbis who served there provide a good indicator of its changing cultural profile. While Bernardus Isaac and Selig Bettelheim were obscure figures, Binyamin Ze’ev Volf Rappaport (1754–1837), who served for 56 years, was a brilliant Talmudic scholar who published several volumes of novellae and responsa during his lifetime and whose stature was commensurate with the growing importance of Pápa. While entirely traditional, his independent, lenient halakhic stance antagonized the leading authorities of the day. He was succeeded by an unusual Orthodox rabbi, Feivel (Pál) Horowitz, who delivered one of the first sermons in the Magyar tongue in Hungary. In August 1844, Horowitz organized a rabbinic conference in nearby Paks in response to both the emancipatory debates taking place in the Hungarian Diet and the Reform rabbinical assemblies in Germany. While the conference proved a fiasco, it did issue a resolution that condemned usurious practices and urged the Jewish populace to observe ethical business practices. However, the sudden death of Horowitz in February 1845 brought his initiative to an end.    / @myinfolinebusinesspages   Create Your Free Website - on https://goo.gl/icUWWd Post Free Ads: https://goo.gl/3eRpAc https://goo.gl/iEb9lM https://goo.gl/VubkqA International Classifieds https://goo.gl/wZWWfc https://goo.gl/y3IEEJ https://goo.gl/OjQNJG