Car 51 has its number painted on the dash with a white destination board beneath that will not read, a route disc set in the front window and a bow collector on the roof. The rails are set straight into the cobbled setts with no reservation of any kind. Along the shopfronts a man is up a ladder working at an awning frame, the rolled steel shutters on the shop beside him are half down, and the people waiting are in headscarves, flat caps and overcoats, carrying bags and a bundle.
About this place
The street of the Jewish quarter, running from the old centre towards Futoska. The synagogue and the Jewish community house stand on it at numbers 9 and 11, the third synagogue built on that ground. The tram ran along it, and the shopfronts on both sides put it among the busiest trading streets in the town. Rákóczi Ferenc street is the Hungarian-era name of today's Jevrejska street, which runs west from Liberty Square through what had been the city's Jewish quarter since the late 18th century. It commemorates Ferenc II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against Habsburg rule between 1703 and 1711, and postcards published in the 1900s and in 1916 print the name in Hungarian and German alike. The street changed name repeatedly: Jevrejska until the 1930s, then Kralja Petra II, Rákóczi Ferenc again during the Hungarian occupation of 1941 to 1944, and Ulica JNA from 1944 until the name Jevrejska was restored. The postcard view looks east along the street toward the red brick neo-Gothic Name of Mary Church on Liberty Square, with a tram of the line that ran here from 1911 in the distance.
- Date
- 1930–1958
- Coordinates
- 45.25292, 19.83941
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 789 × 581 px
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