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“The sudden influx in the last decade of so many foreign Jews has been a culture shock for some locals,” said the mayor of the town called Kerestir in Yiddish.
As many as 50,000 Jews traveled to a Hungarian town for the anniversary of a noted rabbi’s death, marking significant growth for the annual pilgrimage and generating what the town’s mayor called “culture shock” for non-Jewish locals.