Ignaz Maybaum
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Ignaz Maybaum | |
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| Born | 2 March 1897 |
| Died | 12 June 1976 (aged 79) |
Ignaz Maybaum (2 March 1897 – 12 June 1976) was a
Jewish theologian
.
Life
Maybaum was born in Vienna in 1897. His uncle was the rabbi Sigmund Maybaum. He studied in Berlin at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, where he was ordained as a rabbi in 1926. He took rabbinic posts in Bingen, Frankfurt an der Oder and Berlin. He was a disciple of Franz Rosenzweig.
In 1935 he was arrested by the
Holocaust
.
In 1949 he became rabbi of Edgware and District Reform Synagogue. From 1956 until his retirement in 1963, he lectured in homiletics and theology at Leo Baeck College. He was also active in inter-religious dialogue. His students include Nicholas de Lange.
Holocaust theology
Maybaum wrote many reflections on
Golgotha
and the gas chambers as replacing the cross.
Works
- Parteibefreites Judentum (1935)
- Neue Jugend und Alter Glaube (1936)
- Man and Catastrophe (1941)
- Synagogue and Society: Jewish-Christian Collaboration in the Defence of Western Civilization (1944)
- The Jewish Home (1945)
- The Jewish Mission (1949)
- Jewish Existence (1960)
- The Faith of the Jewish Diaspora (1962)
- The Face of God After Auschwitz (1965)
- Trialogue Between Jew, Christian, and Muslim (1973)
- Happiness Outside the State (1980)
- Ignaz Maybaum: A Reader, Nicholas de Lange (ed.), New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books (2001)
References
- Ignaz Maybaum: A Reader, Nicholas de Lange (ed.), New York: Berghahn Books
- "Ignaz Maybaum" in Cohn-Sherbok, D. (ed.), Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers, London: Routledge, pp. 90–91
- 'Iganz Maybaum and the Call for an Anti-Nazi Crusade', a paper presented by Isaac Hershkowitz, Bar-Ilan University, Israel