| LC control no. | n 95052118 |
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| Personal name heading | Kecskeméti, Lipót |
| Located | Berlin (Germany) Oradea (Romania) |
| Birth date | 1865 |
| Death date | 1936 |
| Place of birth | Kecskemét (Hungary) |
| Place of death | Oradea (Romania) |
| Field of activity | Judaism Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew Bible Jewish religious education of teenagers |
| Affiliation | Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet (Hungary) Pázmány Péter Tudományegyetem Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (Berlin, Germany) |
| Profession or occupation | Rabbis Jewish scholars |
| Found in | His Jeremiás, 1932: t.p., v. 2. (Dr. Kecskeméti Lipót; chief rabbi) Az irás bajnoka, 1938: title page (Kecskeméti, Lipót; memorial service on the second anniversary of his death, June 17, 1938) Jewish virtual library, viewed April 3, 2018 KECSKEMÉTI, LIPÓT (1865-1936; Hungarian rabbi and scholar. Kecskeméti was born in Kecskemét. He studied at the rabbinical seminary and the University of Budapest and at the Lehranstalt fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin. He served as rabbi of Nagyvárad from 1890 to his death. Kecskeméti, a magnificent orator and a highly respected leader, was a convinced anti-Zionist and assimilationist and a Hungarian patriot, courageously resisting attempts to Romanianize Nagyvárad and the other Hungarian regions transferred to Romania after World War I. He founded a Jewish high school there. Among his published works are Zsidó költőkből ("By Jewish Poets," 1887), an anthology of medieval Jewish poetry; his Ph.D. thesis, A pokol a középkori zsidó költészetben ("Hell in Medieval Jewish Poetry," 1888); Egy zsidó vallás van-e, több-e? ("Is There One Jewish Religion or More?" 1913); Az izraelita vallás története ("History of Jewish Religion," 4 vols., 1932); Jeremiás proféta és kora ("The Prophet Jeremiah and His Age," 3 vols., 1932); Ezsajás ("Isaiah," 3 vols., 1935); and many articles in Hungarian-Jewish periodicals. He also translated the Prophets for a Hungarian edition of the Bible.) <https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kecskem-x00e9-ti-lip-x00f3-t> |
| Associated language | hun |
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