Mád is a small, old market town in the Tokaj wine-producing region of northeastern Hungary with a Baroque synagogue dating from 1795 that used to serve some 600 Jews prior to World War II. Three hundred of them survived the deportations and death camps of 1944, but the synagogue fell into disrepair following the war, with no community remaining there to use it. The structure was on a list of important properties to be restored, and in the last few years the Hungarian government with donations from the World Monuments Fund in New York funded a full restoration. Today it's used mainly for cultural events and is open to visitors upon appointment.

For more information on the synagogue, see http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/travel/04iht-trgruber.html and http://articles.latimes.com/2003/oct/26/news/adfg-synagog19