Sándor Scheiber

Sándor (also: Alexander) Scheiber ( born July 9, 1913 in Budapest, † March 3, 1985 in Budapest) was a Hungarian rabbi and Jewish scholars. From 1950 until his death he was director of the rabbinical seminary in Budapest.

Life

Scheiber came paternal and maternal families of rabbis. In 1938 he received the Budapest Rabbinical Seminary ordination as a rabbi, as a student of Bernát Heller. After studying in London, Oxford and Cambridge, where he studied medieval Hebrew manuscripts, including numerous Genizah fragments, he was from 1941 to 1944 Rabbi of Dunaföldvár. After the Second World War he was in Pest rabbinical seminary a professorship and was from 1950 until his death, director of the internationally respected institution, which was then the only rabbinical seminary in the Eastern Bloc, where Jewish clerics were trained for service in Hungary and abroad. At the University of Szeged in 1949 he received a chair of folklore of the Orient.

In an effort to maintain the traditions of Hungarian Jewry, he has published numerous scholarly works of Hungarian Jews, including Wilhelm Bacher, fauna and minerals of the Jews of Immanuel Löw (1969 ) as well as the diary of Ignaz Goldziher (1978). In 1957 he published a facsimile of the so-called Kaufmann Haggadah, named after David Kaufmann, who is known as the Sarajevo Haggadah today.

( " Scheiber Sándor díj " Hungarian) awarded for outstanding achievements in the field of Jewish Studies at Scheiber's death, March 3, every year by the Hungarian Ministry of Culture of Sándor Scheiber Prize.