BODROGKERESZTÚR, town in Borsod (in 1944 Zemplén) county,
northeastern Hungary. The census of 1723–24 records seven Jewish
families who settled there from Poland. The Jewish population
ranged from 58 in 1746 and 336 in 1880 to 535 in 1930. According
to the census of 1941, the last before the Holocaust, the town
had a Jewish population of 455, representing 20.2% of the total
of 2,248. The Jews were mainly merchants, tradesmen, innkeepers,
and freight carters. Located in the Tokay district, the town
also boasted a number of Jewish vintners. The community was
organized toward the end of the 18th century, when it also
organized a ḥevra kaddisha and a Jewish cemetery. The first
synagogue was built in 1767; it was replaced by a new one after
a fire in 1906. The congregation identified itself as Orthodox
in 1868–69. In 1885, the Jewish community of Bodrogkeresztur was
joined by the neighboring smaller communities, including those
of Bodrogkisfalud and Bodrogszegi. Many of the Jews were ḥasidic
and had their own syna