Sándor Scheiber
Sándor (also: Alexander) Scheiber (born July 9, 1913 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died March 3, 1985 in Budapest) was a Hungarian rabbi and Jewish scholar. From 1950 until his death he was director of the Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest.
Life
Scheiber came from rabbi families on both his father's and mother's side. In 1938 he was ordained as a rabbi at the regional rabbinical school, as a pupil of Bernát Heller . After studying in London, Oxford and Cambridge, during which he examined medieval Hebrew manuscripts, including numerous Geniza fragments, he was a rabbi in Dunaföldvár from 1940 to 1944 . After the Second World War he received a professorship in the Pest rabbinical seminary and from 1950 until his death was director of this internationally respected institution, at that time the only rabbinical seminary in the Eastern Bloc , where Jewish clergy were trained for service in Hungary and abroad. At the University of Szeged in 1949 he was given a chair in Oriental Folklore.
In an effort to uphold the traditions of Hungarian Judaism , he published numerous works by learned Hungarian Jews, including Wilhelm Bacher , Fauna und Mineralien der Juden by Immanuel Löw (1969) and the “Diary” by Ignaz Goldziher (1978). In 1957 he published a facsimile of the so-called "Kaufmann Haggada ", a manuscript in the possession of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , named after the former owner David Kaufmann .
On the anniversary of Scheiber's death, March 3rd, the Hungarian Ministry of Culture awards the Sándor Scheiber Prize (Hungarian: “Scheiber Sándor-díj”) for outstanding achievements in the field of Jewish studies .
Fonts (selection)
- Jewish traditions in Hungary . Photos by Tamás Féner. Translation of Irma Fabó. Leipzig: Koehler and Amelang, 1985
- Jewish life - Jewish custom . Photos by Tamás Féner. Translation of Irma Fabó. Wiesbaden: Fourier, 1984
literature
- Scheiber, Alexander , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume 14, 1972, Col. 951
- Róbert Dán (Ed.): Occident and Orient: a tribute to the memory of Alexander Scheiber . Budapest: Akadémiai, 1988
- Enikő Bollobás: The Two Doors of Sándor Scheiber , in: Hungarian Review, August 2013
Web links
- Literature by and about Sándor Scheiber in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Sándor Scheiber in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Entry about Sándor Scheiber in the Hungarian Biographical Lexicon (MEK) of the National Széchényi Library (Hungarian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scheiber, Sándor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scheiber, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian rabbi and Jewish scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1985 |
| Place of death | Budapest |