{"id":15095,"date":"2020-05-12T22:19:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-to.rest\/blog\/judaism-in-transcarpathia\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T22:19:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:19:48","slug":"judaism-in-transcarpathia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/go-to.rest\/blog\/en\/judaism-in-transcarpathia\/","title":{"rendered":"Judaism in Transcarpathia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The first mention of Judaic community<\/a> in Uzhgorod<\/a>it belongs to the XVI century. Immigrants of Jewish origin from the Slavic regions (Bohemias<\/a>, Poland, Galicia) spoke Yiddish, and were followers of Orthodox Ashkenazic Judaism, which required strict observance of the Torah and Talmud.<\/p>\n\n For a worldview Jews’<\/a> Transcarpathia was soon close Hasidism<\/a> \u2013 \u043epositional religious-mystical current that originated among the Jewish population of the Carpathian region and Podillya in the 30s of the XVIII century. The Hasidim were devoted adherents of the so-called miracle-working Rebbe, and so Transcarpathia soon became a haven for strong Hasidic dynasties<\/p>\n\n Large Hasidic communities existed in Mukachevo<\/a>, Khust<\/a>, Uzhgorod<\/a>and other cities and villages. In places of compact residence of the Jews were in synagogue, esimate (schools), religious Department (mazeikiene, etahoben), governments.<\/p>\n\n The Jewish Enlightenment and various events among the intelligentsia and in the field of religious thought reached the West Slovakia<\/a> or for Jews from Bohemia and Moravia, or through Vienna and Burgenland, but did not reach Transcarpathia, where there was a large Jewish community. Transcarpathia little limited contacts with Galicia, which was hindered by low-traffic Carpathians<\/a>. The most fruitful ideas that came here were related to Hasidism, but the main intellectual Jewish tendencies did not reach the region.<\/p>\n\n Despite the large number of people with a Jewish national identity, the Zionist movement was not able to take root in Transcarpathia until the end First world war<\/a>. \u0426this situation was in stark contrast to the situation in Eastern Slovakia, where the city of Kosice became one of the centers of Zionism in Hungarian Kingdom<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n