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Rabbi Avraham Yona Schwartz (born in 1948) is a rabbi and halachic judge, serving as rabbi of the ultra-Orthodox community in Vienna, the capital of Austria, and is the head of the kashrut body in Austria.

BIOGRAPHY
Avraham Yona Schwartz was born in Budapest as Avraham Yona Farkash to Rabbi Yekutiel Zalman Ze'ev Farkash, who served as a rabbi in the town of Nadudvar and later served as a halachic judge and community leader in the city of Budapest. His family's roots are from different Hasidic courts: Mainly Spinka and Belz Hasidism. The father was a Holocaust survivor from the Mauthausen concentration camp, and died in 1954 when he was 28 and Schwartz was six years old. Two years later the family arrived in Israel and the mother remarried and the children took the name of their stepfather, Schwartz, and then moved with her to Britain.