The award, presented each year since 1995 on the anniversary of the death of Chief Rabbi Sándor Scheiber, recognises Hungarian citizens and ethnic Hungarians for their outstanding achievements in Hebrew, Jewish religion, cultural history and education, as well as in promoting dialogue between Jews and non-Jews.
Recipients of this year?s awards are Hungarian-born linguist-historian Pinhas Artzi, who moved to Israel in 1950 and founded the Assyriology Institute there; Budapest-born social historian Viktor Karady, who has led studies of the lifestyle and education of Hungarian Jews since he emigrated to France in 1956; and Gyorgy Jakubinyi, who has been archbishop of the central Romanian city of Alba Iulia, or Gyulafehervar in Hungarian, since 1974.
During the ceremony, retired Chief Rabbi József Schweizter thanked the Hungarian government for establishing the award and expressing its appreciation of the Jewish religious community.
The awards ceremony was attended by Scheiber?s widow and Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest Péter Erdő.
Source: Viktória Lucz
