A violet name stamp on the card
1909–1918Synagogue
The caption is Hungarian alone, with the street name in the older cz spelling, which puts the card before 1918. A message is written in ink across the sky, and a violet rubber stamp giving a private name and the town of Hódmezővásárhely is struck over the picture, the mark of an owner rather than of the publisher. The synagogue was finished in 1909, and a tram stands in the street outside it.
About this place
The synagogue on Jevrejska street was built in 1905-1909 to a design by the Budapest architect Lipót Baumhorn, in Hungarian Secession style, with room for 900 worshippers; synagogues had stood on the same site since 1749. During the Second World War occupation, Jews of Novi Sad were imprisoned in the building before deportation to Nazi death camps; of the more than 4,000 Jews living in the city before the war, roughly 1,000 survived. The building served as a synagogue until about 1966 and since 2012 has been used as a cultural venue for concerts and Jewish holiday celebrations. It was designated a Cultural Monument of Exceptional Importance in 1983.
On the card
Rakoczi Ferencz-ut / Laurencz Ferencz, Hodmezovasarhely
- Date
- 1909–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25306, 19.84083
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1256 × 822 px
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