Amid a bitter dispute with the government, former community director Gusztav Zoltai shocked Hungarian Jews by becoming a minister’s Jewish affairs consultant.
A longtime former leader of Hungarian Jewry was ousted as president of a small Jewish community in Budapest following his nomination as a government consultant on Jewish matters.
Gusztav Zoltai, the director of Hungary’s federation of Jewish communities, or Mazsihisz, resigned in what community leaders said was a protest against the government over Holocaust commemorations.