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

Life

Maybaum was born in Vienna in 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 He took rabbinic posts in Bingen, Frankfurt an der Oder and Berlin. He was a disciple of Franz Rosenzweig.

In he was arrested by the Gestapo, spending six weeks in prison before being released.

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Leaving Germany in , Maybaum was given work in the United Synagogue by the British Chief Rabbi, Joseph Hertz. His mother and sisters were killed in the Holocaust.

In he became rabbi of Edgware and District Reform Synagogue.

From until his retirement in , he lectured in homiletics and theology at Leo Baeck College.

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He was also active in inter-religious dialogue. His students include Nicholas de Lange.

Holocaust theology

Maybaum wrote many reflections on Judaism, Christianity, the Holocaust