László Salgó (23 April 1910, Budapest – 24 July 1985, Budapest[1][2]) was a Hungarian rabbi and member of the National Assembly.
Life
editHe became a rabbi in 1935, and then became deputy rabbi and worked at the synagogue in Józsefváros, and became chief rabbi at the same place after 1945. In July 1957, he served on a delegation of Hungarian rabbis to a celebration of the tenth anniversary of Gustav Sicher's installation as the chief rabbi of Prague.[3] In 1959, he was the Director of the Budapest Rabbinate (ritual as superintendent) and worked as a professor at the National Jewish Theological Seminary, also known as the Budapest Rabbinical Seminary.[4] He was a member of the National Jewish Council. From 1971 until his death, he was the Deputy Chief Rabbi of the Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest and the senior rabbi of the main temple.[5] On April 22, 1980, he was awarded the Order of the Flag of the Hungarian People's Republic.[6][7] He was a member of Hungary's National Assembly from 1981 through 1985. Upon the death of the rabbinical seminary's director Sándor Scheiber in March 1985, Salgó briefly assumed the directorship until his own death later that year.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Hungary's Chief Rabbi Dies". AP. July 25, 1985.
- ^ David Singer; Ruth R. Seldin (1 June 1987). "American Jewish Year Book". University of Nebraska Press: 272–.
The only rabbi in the country was the recently ordained Daniel Meyer, aged 27, a graduate of the Budapest Jewish Theological Seminary. His wedding in … In July Chief Rabbi Laszlo Salgo of Budapest died at the age of 75. In the months prior …
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "CZECHOSLOVAKIA". American Jewish Year Book. 60: 219–222. 1 January 1959. JSTOR 23602941.
- ^ a b Gitelman, Zvi (1 January 1987). "Soviet Bloc Nations". American Jewish Year Book. 87: 271–276. JSTOR 23603955.
- ^ "Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1000–1990". mek.oszk.hu.
- ^ "Chronicle of events". Soviet Jewish Affairs. 10 (3): 87–93. 1980. doi:10.1080/13501678008577344.
- ^ Manek, Atilla (1980-04-22). "Belpolitika – Egyház – Salgó László főrabbi kitüntetése". MTI. Archived from the original on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
Further reading
edit- A Baraita (Bp., 1932); A fővárosi zsidóság vallási élete (Új Élet Naptár, 1959)
- Emlékek a Zsidó Gimnázium első évtizedéből (Magy. Izraeliták Orsz. Képviselete (MIOK) Évkönyv, Bp., 1970)
- Emlékeimből (MIOK Évkönyv, 1983–84, Bp., 1984)
- Salgó László Főrabbi Alapítvány