Flyer for Redeeming Captured Jews

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1686

Printed page with Hebrew text, floral border, and small image of person with tablets and crowd of people on top of page.
This flyer calls for the Jewish community to pay a ransom to rescue Jewish captives from the 1686 siege of Buda, which resulted in the capture of the Hungarian city from the Ottoman Empire by armies representing Christian Europe. It was published in the Hungarian literary and artistic monthly journal Múlt és Jövő. The journal stimulated the Jewish revivalist movement in Hungary and established links between the Jews of Hungary and those of other countries.

Credits

Courtesy of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary—University of Jewish Studies, Hungary.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.

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