Eulogy for the Hungarian politician and statesman Deak Ferencz (1803-1876), delivered by district Rabbi Abraham Singer in the synagogue ofVarpalota on February 13, 1876. Ferencz Deak or Franz Deak (1803-1876) was a Hungarian lawyer and liberal nationalist politician and served as minister of justice in the revolutionary government of 1848. In 1839 Deak opposed a bill prohibiting Jews from acquiring certain classes of immovable property from the nobility. In 1867, when he was active in framing the constitution, he advocated legal emancipation for the Jews. After the schism in Hungarian Jewry between the Reform and Orthodox in 1869, Deak supported the latter in their demand for a separate organization, regarding it as a matter of freedom of conscience.

Abraham Singer (1849-1914) served as rabbi at Varpalota and wrote studies on the history of Hungarian Jewry and his community in particular. Among his publications is a work on the development of the Reform movement in the 19th century, Paris, Braunschweig, Arad (1899), as well as Deutsch-ungarisches Handbuch der Matrikelfuehrung (1884).