{"id":799,"date":"2026-08-22T19:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/?p=799"},"modified":"2026-08-24T14:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:03:59","slug":"tokaj-the-great-synagogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/tokaj-the-great-synagogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokaj- the great synagogue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tokaj is a rather long dwelling along two streets. It seems to be only existing of vinaries and concentrated near the river of Theiss- Tyssen of hotels,  pensions and tourist facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A little further away from the tourist hotspot is the great synagogue, built in 1890 in a mourish style, including \u201eRundbogen Stil\u201c. It was the first synagogue planned by Lipot Baumhorn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seem to have been renovated in the mid 1980s. The neighbouring holocaust memorial was opened in 1984. next to the synagogue is the museum for whine. It might be that it is located in former rabbi house or school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the book of Ferenc Orb\u00e1n a pilgrim house foe chassidic communities is being described. It seems that this moved to the neighbouring village of Bodrogkereszt\u00far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9659-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9659-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9659-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9659-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9659.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Urban sketching the great synagogue of Tokaj <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9656-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9656-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9656-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9656-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9656-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9656-1568x1176.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9656.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A lovely park is located in front of the building <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9667-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9667-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9667-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9667-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9667-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9667-1568x1176.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9667.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9664-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9664-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9664-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9664-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9664.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9662-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9662-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9662-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9662-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9662-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9662-1568x1176.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_9662.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokaj is a rather long dwelling along two streets. It seems to be only existing of vinaries and concentrated near the river of Theiss- Tyssen of hotels, pensions and tourist facilities. A little further away from the tourist hotspot is the great synagogue, built in 1890 in a mourish style, including \u201eRundbogen Stil\u201c. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,23,4,9,29],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-19","tag-cultural-event-center","tag-former-synagogue","tag-hungary","tag-lipot-baumhorn","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}