The Hungarian Government today named a street in Nagyvarad, third largest city of Transylvania, in honor of a Jew. The person so honored was the late Rabbi Leopold Kecskemeti, who until his death three years ago was spiritual leader of the “Neolog” Jews in Transylvania. He was strongly pro-Hungarian and anti-Zionist. During the Rumanian occupation he was jailed on several occasions for Hungarian revisionist activities.
A nephew of the late rabbi, George Kecskeneti, is foreign editor of the Pester Lloyd and his twin brother is in Clermont-Ferrand, France, working for the Paris-Soir. A son, Armin Kecskeneti, is a rabbi in Marko, Hungary.
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