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Martin Buber (Hebrew: מרטין בובר; German: Martin Buber, pronounced [ˈmaʁtiːn̩ ˈbuːbɐ] ; Yiddish: מארטין בובער; February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian-Jewish and Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship. Born in Vienna, Buber came from a family of observant Jews, but broke with Jewish custom to pursue secular studies in philosophy. He produced writings about Zionism and worked with various bodies within the Zionist movement extensively over a nearly 50-year period spanning his time in Europe and the Near East. In 1923, Buber wrote his famous essay on existence, Ich und Du (later translated into English as I and Thou), and in 1925 he began translating the Hebrew Bible into the German language reflecting the patterns of the Hebrew language. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature ten times, and the Nobel Peace Prize seven times. Biography Martin (Hebrew name: מָרְדֳּכַי, Mordechai) Buber was born in Vienna to an Orthodox Jewish family. Buber was a direct descendant of the 16th-century rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen, known as the Maharam (מהר"ם), the Hebrew acronym for “Mordechai, HaRav (the Rabbi), Meir”, of Padua. Karl Marx is another notable relative. After the divorce of his parents when he was three years old, he was raised by his grandfather in Lemberg (now Lviv in Ukraine). His grandfather, Solomon Buber, was a scholar of Midrash and Rabbinic Literature. At home, Buber spoke Yiddish and German. In 1892, Buber returned to his father's house in Lemberg. Despite Buber's putative connection to the Davidic line as a descendant of Katzenellenbogen, a personal religious crisis led him to break with Jewish religious customs. He began reading Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The latter two, in particular, inspired him to pursue studies in philosophy. In 1896, Buber went to study in Vienna (philosophy, art history, German studies, philology). In 1898, he joined the Zionist movement, participating in congresses and organizational work. In 1899, while studying in Zürich, Buber met his future wife, Paula Winkler, a "brilliant Catholic writer from a Bavarian peasant family" who in 1901 left the Catholic Church and in 1907 converted to Judaism. Buber, initially, supported and celebrated the Great War as a "world historical mission" for Germany along with Jewish intellectuals to civilize the Near East. Some researchers believe that while in Vienna during and after World War I, he was influenced by the writings of Jacob L. Moreno, particularly the use of the term ‘encounter’. In 1930, Buber became an honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main, but resigned from his professorship in protest immediately after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. He then founded the Central Office for Jewish Adult Education, which became an increasingly important body as the German government forbade Jews from public education. In 1938, Buber left Germany and settled in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, receiving a professorship at Hebrew University and lecturing in anthropology and introductory sociology. After the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, Buber became the best known Israeli philosopher. Buber and Paula had two children: a son, Rafael Buber, and a daughter, Eva Strauss-Steinitz. They helped raise their granddaughters Barbara Goldschmidt (1921–2013) and Judith Buber Agassi (1924–2018), born by their son Rafael's marriage to Margarete Buber-Neumann. Buber's wife Paula Winkler died in 1958 in Venice, and he died at his home in the Talbiya neighborhood of Jerusalem on June 13, 1965. Buber was a vegetarian. Major themes Buber's evocative, sometimes poetic, writing style marked the major themes in his work: the retelling of Hasidic and Chinese tales, Biblical commentary, and metaphysical dialogue. A cultural Zionist, Buber was active in the Jewish and educational communities of Germany and Israel. He was also a staunch supporter of a binational solution in Palestine, and, after the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel, of a regional federation of Israel and Arab states. His influence extends across the humanities, particularly in the fields of social psychology, social philosophy, and religious existentialism. Buber's attitude toward Zionism was tied to his desire to promote a vision of "Hebrew humanism". According to Laurence J. Silberstein, the terminology of "Hebrew humanism" was coined to "distinguish [Buber's] form of nationalism from that of the official Zionist movement" and to point to how "Israel's problem was but a distinct form of the universal human problem. Accordingly, the task of Israel as a distinct nation was inexorably linked to the task of humanity in general". Zionist views Pre-1915: Early engagement with Zionism Approaching Zionism from his own personal viewpoint, a young Buber disagreed with Theodor Herzl about their respective positions on Zionism. Herzl did not envision Zionism as a movement with religious objectives. In contrast, Buber believed the potential of Zionism was for social and spiritual enrichment. For example, Buber argued that following the formation of the Israeli state, there would need to be reforms to Judaism: "We need someone who would do for Judaism what Pope John XXIII has done for the Catholic Church". Herzl and Buber would continue, in mutual respect and disagreement, to work towards their respective goals for the rest of their lives. In 1902, Buber became the editor of the weekly Die Welt, the central organ of the Zionist movement. However, a year later he became involved with the Jewish Hasidic movement. Buber admired how the Hasidic communities actualized their religion in daily life and culture. In stark contrast to the busy Zionist organizations, which were always mulling political concerns, the Hasidim were focused on the values which Buber had long advocated for Zionism to adopt. In 1904, he withdrew from much of his Zionist organizational work, and devoted himself to study and writing, as in that same year, he published his thesis, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Individuationsproblems, on Jakob Böhme and Nikolaus Cusanus. In a 1910 essay entitled "He and We," Buber established himself and Herzl as diametrically opposed in their perspectives on Zionism. Buber described Herzl by saying, "The impulse of the elementally active person (Elementaraktiver) to act is so strong that it prevents him from acquiring knowledge for the sake of knowledge," and, according to Buber, when a person like Herzl is aware of his Jewishness, "In him awakens the will to help the Jews to whom he belongs, to lead the where they can experience freedom and security. Now he does what his will tells He does not see anything else." In that same essay, Buber would draw a parallel between Herzl and Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism, arguing that both seek to reinst.... Discover the Martin Buber popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Martin Buber books.
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Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
Gershom ScholemA collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and continues in Hasidism today.
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Encounter On the Narrow Ridge
Maurice Friedman"The definitive biography"Mary Deeley, Booklist "It's a book that provides not only a superb introduction to Buber's life and work but almost a short course of instruction in the p...
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Sarah ScottA new collection of essays highlighting the wide range of Buber's thought, career, and activism. Best known for I and Thou, which laid out his distinction between dialogic and mono...
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Psychoanalysis as a Spiritual Discipline
Paul MarcusThe great existential psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger famously pointed out to Freud that therapeutic failure could "only be understood as the result of something which could be call...
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Maurice S. FriedmanMartin Buber: The Life of Dialogue, the first study in any language to provide a complete overview of Buber's thought, remains the definitive guide to the full range of his work an...
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Martin Buber in a Pentastich Light
Martin WassermanMartin Buber, during his lifetime, often asserted that he had no doctrine to teach but likened his efforts to taking persons to a window and asking them to look outside, both broad...
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Emmanuel LevinasConfrontandosi con il cuore del pensiero etico di Martin Buber – secondo il quale l’essere umano è per essenza dialogo e si realizza soltanto nel suo entrare in relazione con l’uma...
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Tales of the Hasidim
Martin BuberTwo volumes of the Jewish philosopher's classic work that collects and retells the marvelous legends of Hasidism. This new paperback edition brings together volumes one...
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Ahnen
Anne WeberDie Vergangenheit liegt vor uns als ein fremdes, fernes Land. Anne Webers nachdenkliche Erkundungsreise in die Vergangenheit führt in die faszinierende Welt ihres genau hundert Jah...
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Redemption and Utopia
Michael Lowy & Hope HeaneyClassic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz KafkaTowards the end of the nineteenth century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish i...
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Die Geschichten des Rabbi Nachman
Martin BuberMystische Erzählungen voller Weisheit und TiefeMit dichterischem Einfühlungsvermögen erzählt Martin Buber in dieser Auswahl einige der bedeutendsten Geschichten des Rabbi Nachman (...
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Das Problem des Zwischenmenschlichen bei Martin Buber und Emmanuel Levinas
Adam GalamagaDie Grundthese der Philosophie des Dialogs lautet, dass die Beziehung zwischen sprachkompetenten Subjekten unmittelbar und grundlegend ist. Sie kann nicht auf Verstehen reduziert w...
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Dan AvnonIn Martin Buber: The Hidden Dialogue, Dan Avnon analyzes and reconstructs Buber's corpus of mature writings. Avnon's novel reading of Buber's diverse writings on the Bible, Christi...
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Bernd AretzEine Begegnung mit Martin Buber (18781965): sein Lebensweg, sein Vermächtnis. Informativ und inspirierend zugleich ist diese Hinführung zu Martin Buber, einer der herausragenden P...
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Cornelia Muth & Erhard DoubrawaMartin Bubers "Chassidische Geschichten" sind lebendige und humorvolle Anekdoten aus dem Leben der osteuropäischen jüdischen Gemeinden. Mit ihnen konnte Buber, der "Phi...
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God in Our Relationships
Rabbi Dennis RossI'm the author so, what can I say? I love it! Rabbi Dennis S. Ross is the author of When a Lie is Not a Sin: The Hebrew Bible's Framework for Deciding, to be released by Jewish Lig...
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Der erzieherische Gedanke bei Janusz Korczak und Martin Buber im Vergleich
Karsten FledererDiese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den erzieherischen Gedanken Janusz Korczaks und Martin Bubers. Beide lebten etwa zur selben Zeit, nämlich in der ersten Hälfte des letzten Jahrhun...
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Martin Buber und die Deutschen
Bernd WitteEine noch offene GeschichteEr arbeitete für eine Erneuerung des Judentums auf der Grundlage der deutschen Sprache. Doch das Land, das ihm Heimat war, verjagte ihn. Nach Auschwitz s...
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God in Our Relationships
Rabbi Dennis S. RossDeepen connections with the people you love. Build relationships with the people you meet. We can go through each dayor a lifetimeas sleepwalkers while awake, toss...
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Paul Mendes-FlohrThe first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber An authority on the twentiethcentury philosopher Martin Buber (1878–1965...
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Le Message hassidique
Martin Buber, Dominique Bourel, Wolfgang Heumann & Emmanuel LevinasAu sein de l'oeuvre prolifique du penseur juif viennois Martin Buber (18781965), la spiritualité hassidique constitue une sorte de fil rouge, depuis les Contes de Rabbi Nahman (190...
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A Year with Martin Buber
Dennis S. Ross2022 Top Ten Book from Academy of Parish Clergy The teachings of the great twentiethcentury Jewish thinker Martin Buber empower us to enter a spiritual dimension that often p...
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Dominique BourelMartin Buber (18781965) est, avec Freud, Einstein ou Kafka, l'un des penseurs juifs les plus connus du xxe siècle dont il a vécu les tragiques bouleversements. Né à Vienne, ayant p...
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On Judaism
Martin BuberEdited by Nahum N. GlatzerWith a new Foreword by Rodger Kamenetz “The question I put before you, as well as before myself, is the question of the meaning of Judaism for the Je...
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Martin Buber. Der Weg des Menschen
Martin Buber»Alles, was deine Hand zu tun findet, tue in deiner Kraft.« (Martin Buber)Der Originaltext dieses Buches geht zurück auf einen Vortrag Martin Bubers, den er im Jahr 1947 gehalten h...
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Martin Buber - seine Herausforderung an das Christentum
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Wer eine Seele rettet, rettet die Welt
Martin Buber & Gertraud RadkeMartin Buber war der bedeutendste Kenner der Spiritualität des Ostjudentums. Seine sorgfältig gesammelten und aufbewahrten "Erzählungen der Chassidim" gehören heute zur spirituelle...
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Liebe als Dialog bei Martin Buber. Eine Untersuchung Martin Bubers dialogischer Philosophie anhand der Begriffe Philia und Agape
Natalie PehlDie Liebe. Ein unerschöpflicher Begriff, der bis heute keine klare Definition verlauten lässt. Martin Buber, einer der Begründer der dialogischen Philosophie versteht Liebe in eine...
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The Letters of Martin Buber
Martin BuberEdited by Profesor Nahum N. Glatzer and Paul MendesFlohr“No matter how brilliant it may be, the human intellect that wishes to keep to a plane above the events of the day is not re...