Budapest’s Shtetl Jewish Urban Walks return on November 23, 2025, with guided tours that chart the history, architecture, everyday life, tragedies, and survival of Hungary’s Jewish communities across different neighborhoods. The aim isn’t just to spot buildings and street names, but to understand the lives and memories embedded in them—past and present.
Sold-Out Stroll in “Lipócia”
SOLD OUT! The November ramble through Újlipótváros—insiders call it Lipócia—dives into this incomparable Danube-side quarter of Pest, a key hub for Budapest’s Jewish life to this day. Keep your eyes open: the area hides stories everywhere. The walk resurrects the memory of 19th- and 20th-century intellectuals, citizens, entrepreneurs, and politicians, while tracing modern Hungary’s sweeping tragedies and uplifting moments, the rapid rise of Budapest after 1873, the formation of Újlipótváros, and the everyday lives of those who lived here—especially Jews—over the last 150+ years. The route ends in the present, literally, at ZSILIP. Participants get 20% off at Brooklyn Bagel.
Guide: historian Csaba Katona from the National Archives of Hungary. Meeting point: memorial plaque of Rabbi József Schweitzer, 1136 Budapest, Hegedűs Gyula Street 3. Price: $13.50; with “Haver Card”: $12.20.
Keep Pace! Nationwide Community Walk
On November 30, 2025, at 11:00, lace up for the 7th National Community Walk (VII. Országos Közösségi Séta) at Normafa. What’s on offer? The good stuff: movement and company—just the pleasant kind. A solid walk rivals many sports physically, but what about the mental lift? We’re social creatures; nearly everything’s better together. Walking too—maybe we skip it only because it’s so easy to do anywhere, anytime. Here’s the fix: organize as a community, pick a place, and go.
Join us—Keep Pace with Us! The nationwide initiative, launched by Krisztina Kende-Hofherr and Éva Ignáth, is joined again by the zsidoprogramok.hu team.
Organizers reserve the right to change the time and program.
