The region is famous for its rebbes, heads of Hasidic communities whose followers revered their thaumaturgical and magical powers.

The city of Sátorajújhely, where 4,000 Jews lived in 1939, houses the mausoleum of Moses Teitelbaum. Born in Poland in 1759, he founded a dynasty of rebbes in Hungary, Galicia, and Romania. Every day, legend has it, Teitelbaum dressed in rags and climbed Mount Sator to see if the Messiah had come.

The archives in the city hall contain documents in Hebrew available for examination.

There’s a Jewish cemetery in the city. The Jewish cemetery was restored in 2020, thanks to the efforts of Bence Illyes, a photographer and researcher in Jewish studies, who brought together many Christian and Jewish volunteers in this effort.