Sermon by Lipot Kecskemeti or Leopold Kecskemety, Reform Rabbi in the synagogue in Nagy-Varad (German: Grosswardein). He was against Orthodoxy and in theory in favor of performing mixed marriages and published quite a number of publications. Nagy Varad is one of the oldest towns of Hungary, south of Budapest. It had a strong Jewish community: in 1900 25 % of the population of 47,018 was Jewish.

The Jewish community of Nagy-Varad/ Grosswardein was divided into an Orthodox and a Reform congregation. While the members of the Reform congregation still retained their membership in the Chevra Kaddisha, they used a cemetery of their own since 1899. The Jews of Nagy-Varad/ Grosswardein were prominent in the public life of the city; there were Jewish manufacturers, merchants, lawyers, physicians, and farmers; the chief of police (1902) was a Jew; and in the municipal council the Jewish element was proportionately represented. The community possessed, in addition to the hospital and Chevra Kaddisha already mentioned, a Jewish women's association, a grammar-school, an industrial school for boys and girls, a yeshiva, a soup-kitchen, etc.