László Salgó (23 April 1910,
Budapest
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– 24 July 1985, Budapest
) was a Hungarian rabbi and member of the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...
.
Life
He became a rabbi in 1935, and then became deputy rabbi and worked at the synagogue in
Józsefváros
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, 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. 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.
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
The Dohány Street Synagogue ( ; ; ), also known as the Great Synagogue () or Tabakgasse Synagogue (), is a Neolog Judaism, Neolog Judaism, Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Dohány utca, Dohány Street in Erzsébetváros (VIIth dis ...
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
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.
He was a member of Hungary's
National Assembly
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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
Scheiber was born in Bu ...
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)