FRIEDMAN, DÉNES

FRIEDMAN, DÉNES (1903–1944), Hungarian rabbi and scholar. In 1927 he succeeded L. Venetianer\>\> as rabbi of Ujpest, and in 1935 joined the staff of the Budapest rabbinical seminary. While still a student he edited, with D.S. Loewinger\>\> , a manuscript of the Alphabet of Ben Sira (in Ve-Zot li-Yhudah, 1926). He wrote A zsidó irodalom főrányai ("The Main Trends of Jewish Literature," 1928). He prepared Bibliographie der Schriften Ludwig Blaus (1926; enlargement of Hg. ed., 1926), and biobibliographies of graduates of the Budapest rabbinical seminary (in Magyar Zsidó Szemle, 44 (1927), 340–68). When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, Friedman was deported to his death after witnessing the murder of his only son. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. Wassermann (ed.), Dr. Friedman Dénes irodalmi munkássága (1943); List of his works; I. Hahn, Az Országos Rabbiképzö Intézet Évkönyve … (1946), 23–24. (Baruch Yaron)