László Salgó (23 April 1910,
Budapest – 24 July 1985, Budapest
) was a Hungarian rabbi and member of the
National Assembly.
Life
He 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 Gustav Sicher (August 31, 1880 in Klatovy – October 5, 1960) was a chief rabbi of Prague.
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's installation as the chief rabbi of Prague. 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
The Budapest University of Jewish Studies ( hu, Országos Rabbiképző – Zsidó Egyetem, or Országos Rabbiképző Intézet / ''Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies'' / german: Landesrabbinerschule in Budapest) is a uni ...
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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.
On April 22, 1980, he was awarded the
Order of the Flag of the
Hungarian People's Republic.
He was a member of Hungary's
National Assembly from 1981 through 1985. Upon the death of the rabbinical seminary's director
Sándor Scheiber
Sándor Scheiber (also Alexander Scheiber; 9 July 1913 – 3 March 1985) was a Hungarian rabbi and an eminent Jewish scholar. From 1950 until his death he was director of the Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest.
Biography
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in March 1985, Salgó briefly assumed the directorship until his own death later that year.
References
Further reading
* 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
External links
Salgó László (tortenelmitar.hu)
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1910 births
1985 deaths
Rabbis from Budapest
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1980–1985)
Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1985–1990)