Tag #120631 - Interview #78437 (Peter Reisz)

My grandparents were religious people.  I know that because I had a place in the great temple here in Obuda, and not just on holidays, but on Friday evenings, too.  What I learned of religious customs, and of reading Hebrew, I learned from my grandmother.  My grandfather lies in a place of honor in the cemetery, because I believe he was some sort of representative of the congregation.  There weren’t really any kosher shops in Obuda, but my grandparents pretty well kept the faith.  There was a kosher slaughterhouse, but later it closed.  At first my grandmother went to a little market on the corner of Lehel road and Robert Karoly Ring-Road for kosher meat. Later, she went to Lipotvaros.  My grandmother was completely kosher; she kept dairy and meat products separate. Up until the day she died, she never ate pork.