THE MEMORIAL BOOK OF PÁPA JEWRY - JewishGen

ADOLF FARAGÓ and
ANDOR BIHARI taught science.
Teachers of the Protestant High School and the teacher training institute were paid by the
hour, with the exception of Lajos Pollák (Pál).
Besides secular subjects, great importance was attached to religious education as well. It
was taught 2 hours a day by LAJOS BAUM and ORE WEISZ.
IG. L. MARTON,
or Uncle Marton; the religious education teacher was a household name in Pápa. His biography
deserved a whole chapter.
Teachers born and/or educated at Pápa had a good name all over the country, sacrificing
themselves for the future generation, working with self-denial in the noble profession. Here is
their list of names:
JENŐ ÁBRAHÁM – had a diploma in teaching and became a graphologist. He worked
under the pseudonym A. Brahms. Besides analysing character, he could also discern health
problems by examining people’s handwriting. He lost his life in the Shoah, which he had
predicted.
His brother, SÁNDOR ÁBRAHÁM, the principal of the neolog elementary school at
Szarvas, perished in forced labour service.
The brothers of Principal Lipót Buxbaum were also excellent teachers:
ÁRMIN BUXBAUM – worked in Pressburg/Pozsony [now Bratislava].
BENJÁMIN BUXBAUM – was the principal of the orthodox school in Cluj/Kolozsvár,
the capital of Transylvania.
YEHUDA BUXBAUM – was the principal of the Jewish school in Eisenstadt/Kismarton,
one of the so-called Sheva Kehilot in Burgenland.
JÓZSEF BUXBAUM (BENCE)- son of the Pápa school principal, taught at the Erzsébet
School at Miskolc. He works at the Budapest University Library.
MARGIT BUXBAUM-the youngest member in a family of teachers, and the daughter of
school Principal Lipót Buxbaum. Before her marriage, she taught at the girls' school at Pápa. Mrs.
Lessinger née Margit Buxbaum lives now in Tel Aviv, where she moved to before the Shoah..
IGNÁC BAUER
belonged to the great old guard of teachers, fought in the 1848 Hungarian War of Independence,
ended his service as a captain and returned to the Jewish elementary school to teach.
OLGA BALLA
had a job at Dombóvár. After her marriage, she moved to Szolnok where she died at a young age.
ÁRMIN BOKOR
was born in 1879 and was educated at Pápa. He was the founder and the editor of a Jewish paper
called Zsidó Néplap. He was a pioneer of the Zionist idea in Hungary. In 1907 he started a new
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