Judapest is an nickname for Budapest, the capital of Hungary. It derived from German word Juden, meaning Jews (Juden+Budapest=Judapest).
The nickname was first used by Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna at the turn of the century.[1][2] In 1900, about 20% of Budapest's total population and 40% of its voters were Jewish.[3] Many members of this ethnic group were magyarized and saw themselves as simply Hungarian Jews. The Hungarian-speaking Neolog Jewish Community of Budapest was one of the world's wealthiest and largest Jewish communities. James Joyce, the famous Irish novelist and poet, used it in 1939 in Finnegans Wake.[4] It was a common nickname amongst members of the Arrow Cross Party, often used against Miklós Horthy and his government. It was also used by Adolf Hitler against the Hungarian government who protected Hungarian Jews and prevented their deportation.[5] Since the mid-2000s, Hungarian ultra-radicals use it again.[6]