Luciano Moše Prelević

Luciano Moše Prelević (* 1953 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia , today Croatia ) is rabbi of the Zagreb Jewish Community .

Life

Luciano Moše Prelević spent his youth in Split . On his mother's side, he comes from the Split Croatian-Jewish family Levi. He studied architecture in Split and Zagreb since 1974 . Prelević worked at the Croatian oil and gas company INA . Initially secular, he came into contact with the Zagreb Jewish community through his cousin. There he intensified his religious life and from then on devoted himself to studying the Torah . In order to do justice to the Hebrew language , Prelević was motivated by his predecessor Rabbi Kotel Da-Don and by the Jewish Community of Zagreb in 1999 to undertake language training in Jerusalem . To do this, he decided to become a rabbi. The Zagreb Jewish Community supported this with a grant . The study started in 2002 at the English speaking Talmud high school Aish HaTorah . During his studies, Prelević completed, among other things, the subjects of Jewish law and Jewish philosophy . At the Shehebar Sephardic Rabbinical College he obtained the diploma as a Jewish religion teacher. Luciano Moše Prelević successfully completed his studies in 2007.

In 2008 he was commissioned to serve as a rabbi in the Zagreb Jewish Community. Luciano Moše Prelević is after Rabbi Miroslav Šalom Freiberger , who was a victim of the Holocaust , the first Croatian rabbi of the Zagreb Jewish Community after the end of the Second World War .

Web links

• Interview and short biography at Nacional-Magazine (Croatian).