Jewish Cultural Festival offers music and literature this September in Hungary

The 25th Jewish Cultural Festival will offer music and literary events throughout Budapest between September 3 and 12, the organisers said on Wednesday.

Events will be held at the Great Synagogue in Dohány Street, Europe’s largest, and at the Frankel Leó, Hegedűs Gyula and Rumbach street synagogues, as well as in the Bálint House, House of Music Hungary and Papp László Budapest Sports Arena, they said in a statement.

The festival will be opened by the Budapest Klezmer Band giving a concert and concluded with a performance by the Sabbathsong Klezmer Band.

International performers will include the Voices of Yemen, Omri Mor Trio, Alex Jacobowitz, Leonid Gutkin, and guests of the Binah Orchestra.

For further programme details, please visit zsidokulturalisfesztival.hu. Find the Facebook page of the festival HERE.