Its central aim of this project is the creation of a database of mini-biographies of Jews who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries in three major Hungarian Jewish communities – Pest, Óbuda, and Miskolc – using the vast and hitherto unexploited information to be found in the minute books of these Jewish communities (on 1873, Óbuda and Pest combined to form Budapest).

It will be conducted by Dr. Howard Lupovitch of the University of Western Ontario, who is one of a handful of scholars currently working on Hungarian Jewry with the requisite linguistic skills.

Click here for the project outline.