# Bodrogkeresztúr <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">קערעסטיר</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Bodrogkeresztúr (Hungarian), Kerestir (Yiddish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Tokaj District, Northern Hungary</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>48.1603 21.3597</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>to 1918/1920</td><td>Bodrogkeresztúr</td><td>Kingdom of Hungary / Austria-Hungary (historic Zemplén County)</td></tr> <tr><td>1920–1945</td><td>Bodrogkeresztúr</td><td>Hungary (interwar & WWII); deported via Sátoraljaújhely ghetto</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–present</td><td>Bodrogkeresztúr</td><td>Hungary</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Bodrogkeresztúr (Yiddish: Kerestir) is a village in the Tokaj District of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, with a Jewish presence documented from a 1723–26 census of seven families from Poland and Galicia, growing to a peak of 535 in 1930 and active in the Tokaj kosher-wine trade. Its global significance derives from Rabbi Yeshaya 'Reb Shayele' Steiner (1851–1925), a Hasidic rebbe famed for hospitality, whose grave and former home draw tens of thousands of pilgrims each year on 3 Iyar since 1989. After the German occupation of 19 March 1944 the village's Jews were ghettoized in April, moved to the Sátoraljaújhely ghetto, and deported to Auschwitz on 25 May 1944, with only 37 survivors returning. <small>Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodrogkereszt%C3%BAr, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/bodrogkeresztur, https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/bodrogkeresztur/welcome.html</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Chaya Toba Seidenfeld (b.1880)]] | Born 08/20/1880 | | [[Yitzchak Tzvi Hersh Seidenfeld (b.1883)]] | Born 08/29/1883 | | [[Malia Tzirel Seidenfeld (b.1885)]] | Born 02/23/1885 | | [[Zseni Seidenfeld (b.1886)]] | Born 12/18/1886 | | [[Yisrael Seidenfeld (b.1888)]] | Born 11/20/1888, Died 01/26/1892 | | [[Avraham Menachem Mendel Seidenfeld (b.1892)]] | Born 01/09/1892 | | [[Shlomo Seidenfeld (b.1894)]] | Born 05/29/1894 | | [[Joseph Seidenfeld (b.1896)]] | Born 04/09/1896 | | [[Yehoshua Seidenfeld (b.1897)]] | Born 1897 | | [[Sol Seidenfeld (b.1919)]] | Born 05/06/1919 | | [[Yekusiel Seidenfeld (b.1921)]] | Born 1921 | | [[Yeshaya Seidenfeld (b.1856)]] | Died 10/01/1925 | | [[Shari Seidenfeld (b.1926)]] | Born 01/11/1926 | | [[Mirel Minyu Margit Sternberg (b.1928)]] | Born 12/04/1928 |