Josef Vekerdi, an elderly Hungarian scholar, was fired from his library post because he was accused of holding anti-Semitic views.
Vekerdi, a leading member of the board of directors for a Budapest library and a member of the Hungarian Academy, reportedly declared some books-all written by Jews-to be useless, among other acts.
Vekerdi denied the charges, saying that his “wife’s family and his friends are Jews.”
He also was accused of making discriminatory remarks about Gypsies, who are regarded by many in Hungary as second-class citizens.
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