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.”
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