ABSTRACT
Tombstones and other monuments with Jewish symbols testify to the presence of Jews in Hungary from as early as the 2nd or 3rd century CE. At that time, Hungary was part of the Roman Empire, and many of the Jews who settled there seem to have been soldiers or administrative officials. The Uralic family includes Finnish and Estonian, as well as a number of minority languages spoken mostly in Russia. Hungarian is the most widely spoken member of the Uralic family, with around thirteen million speakers. The widespread adoption of Hungarian by Jews had effects even outside of the Jewish community. As large numbers of Jews became acculturated into urban Hungarian society during the 19th century, they introduced their non-Jewish compatriots to numerous Yiddish words that they used in their everyday Hungarian speech. The most well-known Hungarian Hasidic group is Satmar, which was founded around 1900 in the then-Hungarian town of Szatmarnemeti.
