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Alexander ándorRosenberg (1844 – 11 August 1909) was a Hungarian Neolog rabbi. Rosenberg was born in
Makó Makó (, , Makowe, or , ) is a town in Csongrád County, in southeastern Hungary, from the Romanian border. It lies on the Maros River. Makó is home to 21,913 people and it has an area of , of which is arable land. Makó is the fourth-larges ...
; after studying at Vienna and
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, and was trained in the
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, where he was made
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. He officiated at the opening ceremony of the Ujpest Synagogue in 1866. In 1868 he was elected preacher in
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.Susanne Blumesberger. ''Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert''. K.G. Saur (2002). . p. 1139. There, the progressive elements in the community seceded from the conservative majority in 1861, seeking to administer synagogue reforms. While the authorities forced reunification in 1863, they allowed the former to maintain a house of worship. In 1870, in the aftermath of the
Schism in Hungarian Jewry The Schism in Hungarian Jewry (, "Orthodox-Neolog Schism"; , Transliteration, trans. ''Die Teilung in Ungarn'', "The Division in Hungary") was the institutional division of the History of the Jews in Hungary, Jewish community in the Kingdom of Hun ...
, the dispute was institutionalized and they formed an independent Neolog congregation. Rosenberg was its first rabbi. In 1876 he was appointed Neolog rabbi of
Kaposvár Kaposvár (; also known by alternative names) is a city with county rights in southwestern Hungary, south of Lake Balaton. It is one of the leading cities of Transdanubia, the capital of Somogy County, and the seat of the Kaposvár District and th ...
, and in 1886 he took the same office in Arad. In the 1890s, he was a prominent figure in the struggle for obtaining Judaism the status of an "accepted faith", fully equal to the Christian sects. In 1895, civil marriage were first enabled in Hungary. Rosenberg proposed that the Neolog rabbinate should not oppose such unions, citing the concept of Dina D'Malkhutah Dina and also claiming that the
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, in Kiddushin 68:2, only banned intermarriage with idol worshipers. His suggestion aroused a severe controversy, and his colleagues condemned him.
Immanuel Löw Immanuel Löw (January 20, 1854 in Szeged – July 19, 1944 in Budapest) was a Hungarian rabbi and scholar, botanist and politician. Life Löw was the son of Leopold Löw whom he succeeded in 1878 as rabbi of Szeged, Hungary, and whose collec ...
refuted his arguments, and his opinion was not accepted.Judah Schweizer. ''Conservative Rabbis in Assimilated Jewish Communities in Hungary''. Proceedings of the World Congress of Jewish Studies, 1997. p. 170. Rosenberg died in Arad.


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“Dear diary, I don’t want to die” – The Diary of Éva Heyman
'. Rosenberg great-granddaughter's Holocaust diary. 1844 births 1910 deaths People from Makó 19th-century Hungarian rabbis Neolog rabbis {{Hungary-rabbi-stub