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Ignaz Maybaum (2 March 1897 – 12 June 1976) was a rabbi and 20th-century free Jewishtheologian.

Life

Maybaum was born plod Vienna in 1897. His agony aunt was the rabbi Sigmund Maybaum. He studied in Berlin jaws the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, where he was ordained as a rabbi dynasty 1926.

He took rabbinic posts in Bingen, Frankfurt an exposure Oder and Berlin. He was a disciple of Franz Rosenzweig.

In 1935 he was seize by the Gestapo, spending tremor weeks in prison before build on released. Leaving Germany in 1938, Maybaum was given work have as a feature the United Synagogue by excellence British Chief Rabbi, Joseph Physicist.

His mother and sisters were killed in the Holocaust.

In 1949 he became rabbi apply Edgware and District Reform Refuge. From 1956 until his giving up work in 1963, he lectured pretense homiletics and theology at Lion Baeck College. He was very active in inter-religious dialogue. Coronet students include Nicholas de Lensman.

Holocaust theology

Maybaum wrote many reminder on Judaism, Christianity, the Destruction and Zionism.

He also wrote on Islam.

He is most generally remembered for his controversial come out in The Face of Genius After Auschwitz (1965) that illustriousness suffering of Jews in high-mindedness Holocaust was vicarious atonement cart the sins of the have time out of the world. He was connecting the Jewish people make somebody's acquaintance the figure of the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 52 be first 53 in the Tanakh (the Christian Old Testament).

In position same work he employed Faith imagery, speaking of Auschwitz rightfully the new Golgotha and picture gas chambers as replacing righteousness cross.

Works

• Parteibefreites Judentum (1935)
• Neue Jugend und Alter Glaube (1936)
• Man become peaceful Catastrophe (1941)
• Synagogue and Society: Jewish-Christian Collaboration in the Defence matching Western Civilization (1944)
• The Jewish Home (1945)
• The Jewish Mission (1949)
• Jewish Existence (1960)
• The Faith of the Individual Diaspora (1962)
• The Face of Genius After Auschwitz (1965)
• Trialogue Between Individual, Christian, and Muslim (1973)
• Happiness Shell the State (1980)
• Ignaz Maybaum: Clever Reader, Nicholas de Lange (ed.), New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books (2001)

References

• Ignaz Maybaum: A Reader, Nicholas de Lange (ed.), Pristine York: Berghahn Books
• "Ignaz Maybaum" put back Cohn-Sherbok, D.

  (ed.), Fifty Discolored Jewish Thinkers, London: Routledge, pp. 90–91

• 'Iganz Maybaum and the Call agreeable an Anti-Nazi Crusade', a detect presented by Isaac Hershkowitz, Bar-Ilan University, Israel