When the reader holds in his hands this highly informative album on the uniquely rich Jewish heritage of Mukachevo, he is paying off an old debt of Hungarian publishing.

For a long time, Munkács was one of the shining jewels of Hungarian-speaking Jewry and an important citadel of Hasidism in Hungary. Studying Éva Horvát's expressive photographs and reading Viktor Cseh's insightful text, we finally have the opportunity to encounter a glorious chapter of our common past, so far sadly little known, but all the more significant.