biography
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Sternberg, Sir Sigmund
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| male
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| Businessman and religious ecumenist, born in Budapest, Hungary. Brought up in the Orthodox Jewish tradition in Hungary, he left the country for England in 1939. He became a worker in the scrap metal industry, and within a few years created the Sternberg group of companies. In the mid-1960s he became well known for his involvement in community work. He was made chairman of the International Council of Christians and Jews in 1979, and in the 1990s set up the Three Faiths Forum (including Muslims). He was knighted in 1976, appointed a Papal Knight in 1985, and awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1998 for his interfaith work worldwide. |
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