Ernest David Klein was a Hungarian-born Romanian-Canadian linguist, author, and rabbi. He spent time in his youth teaching himself new languages, and by the end of his life knew 40 languages. In addition to rabbinical studies, Klein studied languages, philology and exact philosophy at the University of Budapest and the University of Vienna, receiving his Doctorate of Philosophy from the latter in 1925. He served as the rabbi of the Nové Zámky community, Czechoslovakia from 1931 to 1944, when he was deported to Auschwitz and Dachau. After the war, he served briefly as the rabbi in his hometown of Satu Mare, before emigrating to France, where he served a rabbi of a synagogue in Paris. He emigrated to Canada in 1951 and served as rabbi of Congregation Beth Yitshak in Toronto.
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