Samu Kahan-Frankl

Identifier
000576
Dates
1890-1970
Type of Entity
Person

History

Hungarian Orthodox rabbi, head of the Central Office of the Autonomous Orthodox Israelite Denomination of Hungary. He was the member of the Central Jewish Council in 1944. In the summer of 1944 he resigned from his position and he went into hiding. After the war he headed the national Orthodox organization again. He emigrated to Israel in 1950.