Rabbi David Maxa
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| Rabbi David Maxa | |
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| Born | 8 April 1990 Bratislava |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Czech |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Charles University, University of Potsdam |
| 💼 Occupation | Rabbi |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Judita Maxa Bergmannová |
| 👴 👵 Parents |
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| 🏅 Awards | Miroslav Petrusek Price |
| 🌐 Website | www.davidmaxa.com |
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David Maxa (Hebrew name Ha'Rav David be Yehoyakim Ve'Chana, born 8 April 1990 in Bratislava) is a Czech Reform Rabbi.
Biography[edit]
David Maxa grew up in Prague. After the death of his father, a Holocaust survivor, he, then 11, decided he wanted to know more about his roots.[1] In 2010, this search led him to the Religious and Judaic studies at Charles University in Prague and University of Bayreuth in Germany. In 2014, he enrolled in the rabbinical seminary Abraham Geiger College at the University of Potsdam. During his rabbinical studies he spent one year at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem and three other rabbinical schools - Hebrew Union College, Shalom Hartman Institute and Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. He finished his rabbinical studies by defending his rabbinical thesis "The Role of God in the Story of Cain and Abel" and earned a master's degree in Jewish Theology.[2] His rabbinic ordination took place on 10 September 2020 in the Rykestraße Synagogue in Berlin. As his rabbinical motto he chose a verse from Prophet Isaiah that appears over the northern arcade of the Smíchov Synagogue in Prague: ""Peace, peace to those far off and to those nearby, said the Eternal." (Isaiah 57:19)[3]
Since 2020, he been serving as the rabbi of the Progressive Jewish Community Ec chajim in Prague, which I co-founded in 2019[4][5], and the Federation of the Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, in which he is in charge for the area of Reform Judaism and serves as the rabbi of the Jewish communities in Liberec and Děčín. Since 2021, he has been the Convenor of the Central European Beit Din (CEBD), the only rabbinic court for Reform stream acknowledged by the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) and the European Union for Progressive Judaism (EUPJ) for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.[6] He is a regular member of the EUPJ Rabbinic Assembly (ERA) and the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) and an associated member of the General Conference of Rabbis Germany (Allgemeine Rabbinerkonferenz Deutschland - ARK).[7]
He is actively involved in interfaith dealogue and preventing Antisemitism. In 2021, Charles University awarded him by the Miloslav Petrusek Award for my participation in the project Nezapomeneme ("We will not forget"), whose goal is to raise awareness about Holocaust among the students of primary and secondary schools.[8][9] He volunteers as a member of the Editorial Board of the Memorial Scrolls Trust, which is based in London and cares for 1564 Czech Torah scrolls that represent the lost Jewish communities of Bohemia and Moravia.[10]
Personal life[edit]
He is married to Judita Maxa Bergmannová, the daughter of Pavel Bergmann, a Czech historian and philosopher, a signatory of the Charter 77 manifesto, and they have one son.[11]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ March 24; 2020 (2020-03-24). "Meet: David Maxa, Rabbinical Student, Abraham Geiger College, Czech Republic". eJewish Philanthropy. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "Unsere Absolventen des Jahres 2020". Abraham Geiger Kolleg (in Deutsch). 2020-08-25. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "Rabbi David Maxa". Rabbi David Maxa. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "Looking to the future with Prague's Jewish community". Jewish Renaissance. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "[CZECH REPUBLIC] New Progressive Community in Prague | World Union for Progressive Judaism". wupj.org. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "EUPJ Website | Progressive Central European Beit Din Launched". Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "Rabbi David Maxa". Rabbi David Maxa. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "Karolinum hostilo sympozium NEZAPOMENEME". Univerzita Karlova (in čeština). Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "Rabbi David Maxa". Rabbi David Maxa. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "This Simchat Torah, one ancient Czech scroll has returned to its country of origin". Religion News Service. 2021-09-27. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "Rabbi David Maxa". Rabbi David Maxa. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
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