Puspokladany

Welcome to Puspokladany

Puspokladany is located in the middle of the territory east of the River Tisza, at the meeting point of Hortobagy, Nagykunsag and Nagysarret. It is 82-88 m above sea level. Its climate is continental. Its mean annual temperature is 10.2 degrees centigrade. Its mean annual precipitation is 540 m.

The town's favourable geographical situation has always played an important role in its development since the main commercial traffic road connencting Budapest and Debrecen forks at the border of Puspokladany in the direction of Nagyvarad.

Puspokladany's Synagogue on -- street, now a bar

Puspokladany's Jewish community dates back to 1840, when the town numbered just 15 Jewish residents. The town's synagogue and Jewish communal complex was built in 1880, with the Puspokladany's Jewish population reaching 741 at the time. The complex was burned in a fire in 1935, and reopened in 1937.

During WWI, 87 Jewish soldiers fought in the Hungarian army, with 30 falling in the line of duty. Puspokladany built a monument in their memory.

Some 641 Jews lived in Puspokladany in 1930, and 552 in 1941, marking 3.6% of the population.

Puspokladany's Jews were deported in June 1944. Following the Holocaust, 185 returned, but met with hostile local residents. By 1960, all of Puspokladany's Jews had left.

Rabbi Joseph Rosenberg's Kashrut certification on Passover Matzas

Puspokladany Rabbis