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Tamás Róna (Budapest, 30 April 1975 – ) is a Hungarian neolog chief rabbi, theologist and academic who was awarded with Sándor Scheiber Prize. Since 2006 he has been the chief rabbi of the Alföld Region in Hungary.

Professional career
Tamás Róna was born in a religious neolog Jewish family in Budapest. He has been the disciple of Chief Rabbi Alfréd Schőner since his childhood. In 2001 he graduated as a teacher of religion, then in 2005 he got his MA degree as a rabbi at the Rabbinic Seminar and Jewish University of Hungary. In 2011 he publicly defended his PhD dissertation in Theology, the topic of which was the history and integration of the Jewish community of Kecskemét into the Hungarian nation from 1880.

Since May 2006 he has been the Chief Rabbi of the Alföld Region of Hungary. He is married, and the father of two children. Since 2005 he has been the member of the presidential board of the Hungarian Christian-Jewish Society, and from 2007 he has been the member of the International Council of Christians and Jews.

From 2003 he has been teaching at the Rabbinic Seminar and Jewish University of Hungary, he was promoted from lecturer to adjunct professor, then to associate professor. Since 2019 he has been the President of the Rabbinic Council of the Association of Hungarian Jewish Religious Communities (MAZSIHISZ), and from 2020 he has been the founder and president of the religious organisation Hungarian Jewish Association of Prayer (ZSIMA). Together wih Cantor Gergely Nógrádi he is the author of the first series of Hungarian primary school Jewish religious textbooks. Tamás Róna is the permanent lecturer of conferences in Religious Studies, and the author and editor of several books and research articles. His work in the field of Theology and Jewish Studies he was awadrded with Sándor Scheiber Prize by the Hungarian Government.

Main professional works

 * 1998 Organising public Talmud and Torah Lectures in the Central Hungary region
 * 2009 The editor of the stamp series of the Hungarian Postal Service of Hungarian Synagogues
 * 2010 Organising one-week-long summer camps for Jewish children in Kiskunhalas
 * 2013- Editing and writing a series of Hungarian Jewish religious textbook for primary school students
 * 2015 The organiser of the cultural programmes of the Churches in the project of the Youth Capital of Europe
 * 2015 Private audience at Pope Francis
 * 2015 Curator of the Exhibition organised by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences called "Prayers after Auschwitz"
 * 2015 Cooperation with the Budapest Festival Orgchestra
 * 2016-2017 Organising a large-scale series of Jewish cultural programmes in the Central Hungary region
 * 2017 Cooperation with the Ambassador of Israel in Hungary in the training of Jewish youth camp leaders
 * 2017 Oranising the cooperation between the International Council of Christians and Jews, the Local Government of Kecskemét, the Hungarian Catholic Church and the Association of Hungarian Jewish Religious Communities in order to prepare the yearly World Conference of ICCJ in 2018
 * 2018 Edition and publication of a textbook called the "The History of Jews in Hungary"
 * Initiation fthe Adolf Fényes Talent Development Program for Jewish youth in the Hungarian country
 * 2020 - Foundation of the Hungarian Jewish Association of Prayer (ZSIMA)

Professional awards, titles

 * 2000/2001 Student Scholarschip of the Republic of Hungary
 * 2001/2002 Student Scholarschip of the Republic of Hungary
 * 2002 Award of the Central European Section of the Jewish World Congress
 * 2008 Award of the International Council of Christians and Jews for Jewish-Christian dialogue
 * 2005 Member of the Presidential Board of the Hungarian Christian-Jewish Society
 * 2014- Member of the Council for Elderly People of the Local Government of Kecskemét
 * 2015-2016 Co-President of the Hungarian Jewish-Christian Association
 * 2016 Member of the Congress of the International Council of Christians and Jews
 * 2016 Promoted to Chief Rabbi
 * 2019 Sándor Scheiber Award
 * 2019 President of the Rabbinic Council of the Association of Hungarian Jewish Religious Communities

Main publications

 * Tamás Róna: Judaizmus és közösségtörténet: Kecskemét rabbijainak működése történetszociológiai aspektusból [Judaism and Community History. The Operation of the Rabbis from the Point of Virew of Historical Sociology] PhD-dissertation, Rabbinic Seminar and Jewish University of Hungary, 2010.
 * A magyarországi zsidóság története [The History of the Jews in Hungary], ed. Tamás Róna-Mónika Mezei, Budapest, Szent István Társulat, 2015. ISBN 9789632777153.
 * Tamás Róna-Gergely Nógrádi: Zsidó hittankönyv I. [Jewish Religious Textbook I.], Budapest, Gabbiano Print, 2016.
 * Tamás Róna-Gergely Nógrádi: Zsidó hittankönyv II. [Jewish Religious Textbook II.], Budapest, Gabbiano Print., 2016.
 * Tamás Róna-Gergely Nógrádi: Zsidó hittankönyv III. [Jewish Religious Textbook III.], Budapest, Gabbiano Print, 2017.
 * Tamás Róna-Iván Schindler: Schindler József szegedi főrabbi emlékezete [The Memory of József Schindler, Chief Rabbi of Szeged], Szeged, Szegedi Zsidó Hitközség dr. Birnfeld Sámuel Könyvtára, 2016.
 * Sámuel Kóhn: Kohn Schwerin Götz bajai és bácsmegyei főrabbi. Élet- és korrajz (1760-1852) [Sámual Kóhn: Shchwerin Götz Kohn, Chief Rabbi of Baja and Bács County, Biography and Historical Context], ed. László Nagyela, Dóra Hicsik Dóra, introduction written by Tamás Róna, Subotica, Minerva Könyvképző, 2019.
 * Tamás Róna-Gergely Nógrádi: Zsidó hittankönyv IV. [Jewish Religious Textbook IV.], Budapest, Gabbiano Print, 2020.
 * Tamás Róna's full list of publications and citations in Hungarian Scientific Bibliography Database of the Hungarian Acedamy of Schiences