Senator Emmanuel Loew, aged Chief Rabbi of Szeged, has been stricken from the list of members of the Municipal Council on the basis of the Hungarian anti-Jewish law, it was learned today.
A street in Szeged is named after his father, Dr. Leopold Loew, who was an army chaplain in the War of 1848. In 1911, Rabbi Loew declined the post of Vienna Chief Rabbi when the Szeged Municipal Council adopted a resolution asking him to remain “as the personification of patriotic Hungarian Jewry.”
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
