Martin Buber was born in pre-Nazi Austria and emigrated to Israel in 1938 where he spent much of the rest of his life. He grappled with Zionism, Jewish thought, secular philosophy and politics and the result is a body of thought very much based on relationships.
Guests:
Paul Mendes-Flohr, Professor of Modern Jewish Thought, Divinity School, University of Chicago
Further Information:
Paul Mendes-Flohr - (http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/mendes-flohr.shtml) - university homepage
Martin Buber (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buber/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Publications:
Title: German Jews: A Dual Identity
Author: Paul Mendes-Flohr
Publisher: Yale University Press (1999)
Title: The Jew in the Modern World. A Documentary History
Author: Paul Mendes-Flohr & Jehuda Reinharz
Publisher: Oxford University Press (1995)
Title: Martin Buber: a contemporary perspective
Author: Edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr
Publisher: Syracuse University Press (2002)
Part of the series: The Library of Jewish Philosophy
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