Jewish Institute for the Deaf (Budapest)

The Jewish Institute for the Deaf was founded in 1876 in Budapest, Hungary.[1]

The institute was closed in 1944 because of World War II.[2]

The institute's building has long since become a synagogue and center of Jewish community.[3]

Institute people

  • The school was attended by Izrael Zachariah Deutsch around the time of the Holocaust.
  • Dezső Kanizsai taught at the institute starting in 1907.

References

  1. "The Jewish community of Budapest, Hungary". Beit Hatfutsot.
  2. Schlossberg, R. Dan (March 15, 2005). "Surviving in Silence: A Deaf Boy in the Holocaust; The Harry I. Dunai Story". Disability Studies Quarterly. 25 (2). doi:10.18061/dsq.v25i2.557 via dsq-sds.org.
  3. "Hidden Treasures of Budapest / Synagogues inside-outside the Jewish Quarter". www.greatsynagogue.hu.

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