Bent Melchior

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Bent Melchior is a former chief rabbi of Denmark.

He was born Binyamin Melchior in 1929. His father Marcus Melchior became chief rabbi of Denmark in 1947. At the age of 18 Binyamin Melchior volunteered as a soldier in Israel's War of 1948.

Melchior had his rabbinical education in London and in 1963 he became rabbi at the Synogogue in Copenhagen. When his father died in 1969, he succeeded him as chief rabbi for the Jewish Community in Denmark. He has translated the Pentateuch into Danish and fathered Michael Melchior.

Bent Melchior was pensioned in 1996, and replaced with Bent Lexner.

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