The Budapest Jewish community recently held a ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famed Jewish scholar, Rabbi Armin Kecskemeti. A representative of the Hungarian Ministry of Religious Affairs attended the ceremony. Kecskemeti was the only rabbi who, in the first half of the century, was granted the post of university professor of history.
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