Piricse

Piricse is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.

Geography
It covers an area of 36.99 km2

Population
Of the town's population of 1,835 people (2001) 94.5% identified themselves as Hungarian and 5.5% as Gypsy.

Notable people

 * Michael Fedics (1851–1938), the great storytellers.
 * Rabbi Yaakov Yehuda Aryeh Leib Frenkel (died 1940) - the Town Rabbi
 * Irene Wild recognized jazz singer. The Budapest Jazz Garden Club 's founder.

Jewish community

 * Prior to the Holocaust a small Jewish community existed in Piricse.
 * The Jewish population in 1880 was 171 and declined to 73 by 1930.