Marton, Ernő, 1896-1960

LC control no.	no2018047419
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Personal name heading	Marton, Ernő, 1896-1960 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Hungary Romania Israel
Located	Cluj (Romania) Budapest (Hungary) Bucharest (Romania) Tel Aviv (Israel)
Birth date	1896-05-17
Death date	1960-08-28
Place of birth	Târnăveni (Romania)
Place of death	Tel Aviv (Israel)
Field of activity	Journalism Zionism World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Hungary
Affiliation	Parlamentul României Hungarian Zionist Movement World Federation of Hungarian Jews
Profession or occupation	Journalists Newspaper editors Politicians Zionists
Found in	Marton, Ernő. Mit nyújthat Palesztina a világ zsidóságának?, 1942: title page (Marton Ernő). Horák, Magda, "Kik voltak ők? 2004, page 495 (Marton Ernő (1896 May 17th-1960 Aug. 28th Tel-Aviv): journalist. He was the secretary of the archbishop of Kisküküllő county. In 1918 he founded the most important newspaper of the Transylvanian Zionist press, "Új kelet," and was its first editor-in-chief. It was rich in content and served as the Zionist movement's courageous mouthpiece. It was closed down after the Hungarian march into Transylvania in 1940. In about 1930-1931 he was deputy mayor of Kolozsvar (Cluj) and later served as representative of the Romanian parliament for Bukovina. During World War II he was in Kolozsvar for a short period, then worked in the National Jewish Organization in Budapest. When he fell ill, he turned to the Kolozsvar Romanian consul for help. The chauffeur of the consul smuggled him to Bucharest. In 1946 he emigrated to Tel-Aviv where he restarted "Új kelet" with its Hungarian language unchanged,) Encyclopedia.com, viewed April 4, 2018 MARTON, ERNÖ JECHEZKEL (1896-1960; editor and leader of Transylvanian and Hungarian Jewry. Born in Dicsőszentmárton (now Târnǎveni, Romania), Marton was the son of the city's rabbi. Toward the end of World War I, he participated in Hungarian public life and in 1918 he was appointed general secretary to the district governor. But he quickly left this position, moved to Kolozsvár, and took part in the "Zionist revolution" that was then taking place among the Jews of Transylvania. He joined the group that established the Hungarian-language Zionist newspaper Új Kelet ("The New East") and was soon appointed editor in chief (1919). From then until his death he was editor of the paper (in Cluj and later in Tel Aviv). Marton was elected to major posts in the Zionist movement in Transylvania. Marton was one of the founders and leaders of the Jewish Party in Romania and succeeded in convincing Romanian politicians to view the Jews of Transylvania as a national minority. In 1919 he was elected to the city council of Cluj on behalf of the Jewish Party and was appointed vice mayor. In 1932 he was chosen on the same list as a member of the Romanian parliament, where he defended the rights of the Jews. During World War II, with the reannexation of Cluj to Hungary (1940), the publication of Új Kelet was discontinued. Marton moved to Budapest and joined the executive of the Hungarian Zionist movement. In 1944, when the Nazis occupied Hungary, he moved to Bucharest and organized rescue activities on behalf of Hungarian Jewry. He renewed his ties with Romanian politicians and designed a program for the large-scale rescue of Hungarian Jews. With the liberation of Hungary, Marton headed a convoy to Budapest to organize welfare programs for the survivors of the ghetto. In 1946 Marton settled in Palestine. Two years later, together with David Dezsö Schoen, he renewed publication of Új Kelet in Tel Aviv. He also founded the World Federation of Hungarian Jews and was its first chairman. In addition to numerous articles that appeared for decades in his newspaper, he also published books on ideological problems of Zionism. His most important work is A magyar zsidóság családfája (Family Tree of Hungarian Jewry, 1941), in which he developed new theories on the history of the Jews in Hungary. The book also appeared in English translation in Hungarian Jewish Studies (1966), 1-59. <https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/marton-erno-jechezkel>
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