Home › Forums › Inspiration / Mussar › Hungarian Yidden › Reply To: Hungarian Yidden
Kasho, Munkacz, Ungvar, Satu Mare etc were located in lands conquered by the ancestors of the present Hungarians. They had another culture altogether.
Those areas were part of Hungary for a thousand year (from about year 900 CE) right until the end of World War I (1920), when the Austro-Hungarian empire was broken up into smaller countries and this area was incorporated into the new state of Czechoslovakia at the behest of the victorious Allies. (Satu Mare was given to Romania then.) It was about 33% (Orthodox) Jewish, while the goyim were a mix of Hungarians, Rusyns (not Russians), and Ukrainians. In 1938 the Hungarians took it back just before WWII and held it until the end of the war in 1944 when the Allies returned it to Czechoslovakia. Because it was in Hungary again from 1938-1944 instead of Czechoslovakia, when the Nazis ym’s invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, this area (like the rest of Hungary) was spared until 1944 when the Nazis took over Hungary itself. In 1945 the Soviet Union took the area away from Czechoslovakia. When USSR broke up in 1991 it became part of the Ukraine. These were heavily Chasidic towns right up to World War II.