ABSTRACT
Jewishness in contemporary Hungary has many different aspects. The strict halakhic definition, following the practice of Jewish law and the religious understanding of the word "Jewish", has to be enhanced by more secular or sociological definitions. The core of Jewish Hungary is invariably the Jewish Community, people who register at a synagogue, live a life more or less according to halakhic rules, attend synagogue regularly or at least on High Holidays, etc. Jews are an integral part of contemporary Hungarian society, and while Jewishness tends to gravitate toward Jewish religion, and within that, toward the traditional, religion isn't the only existing and viable form of Jewish identity. The chapter discusses the achievements of the integration of Jewish Studies into the studies and scholarship pursued at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and in Hungarian universities. Jewish tradition and Jewish learning shall finally occupy the place it deserved in the culture of Hungary since the times of Ignac Goldziher and Wilhelm Bacher.
