Emőd is a very small town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary, 25 kilometers from county capital Miskolc.

The town was first mentioned by an anonymous notary of Béla III.

In 1872 it was downgraded to a village, and got town status back only on August 19, 2001 AD.

Before World War II, there was a Jewish community in Emőd.

At its height, there were 123 Jews in the community most of them were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.