Born in Transylvania, banned in wartime Hungary and reborn in Israel
With minimal politics and plenty of nostalgia, Jewish Hungarian-language newspaper Új Kelet was relaunched in Tel Aviv – 107 years after it was born
From left: Sára Itzhaki-Salamon, Éva Vadász and Kristóf Steiner, the owners of Új Kelet, who have reinvented the newspaper. Credit: David Bachar
With minimal politics and plenty of nostalgia, Jewish Hungarian-language newspaper Új Kelet was relaunched in Tel Aviv – 107 years after it was born
01:08 PM • December 28 2025 IST
The lobby of Tel Aviv University's Green House was packed last Thursday evening. The air buzzed with a cacophony of Hungarian, English and Hebrew. In the corner of the hall – a restored 19th-century building and one of the last remnants of the village of Sheikh Munis – sat a long refreshments table. Among the bottles of Galilean wine and arak stood a green, round-bottomed bottle of Unicum, Hungary's iconic bittersweet herbal liqueur. To the dozens who gathered there, it looked perfectly at home.
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