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BURGENLAND is one of the federal states of Austria, on the Hungarian border. Located in Burgenland were the "Seven Communities" ( Sheva Kehillot or Sieben Gemeinden ), noted for their outstanding yeshivot and eminent rabbis: * Eisenstadt (Hung. Kismarton; Heb. א״ש) * Mattersburg/ Mattersdorf (Hung. Nagymarton) * Deutschkreutz (Hung. Sopronkeresztúr, Németkeresztúr; Hebr. צעלם, צלם)* Frauenkirch...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Sopron, Hungary, also known as Ödenburg [Ger], Scarbantia [Lat], Szorpron, Shapron, Sopronium. Sopron (German: Ödenburg,Oedenburg) was historically capital of the district of the same name. Its Jewish community, according to a document of 1526, dates from the 10th century and is one of the oldest in Hungary. Located on the Austrian b...