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The Letters of Martin Buber

by Martin Buber
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Edited by Profesor Nahum N. Glatzer and Paul Mendes-Flohr
“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 really alive,” wrote Martin Buber in 1932. The correspondence of Martin Buber reveals a personality passionately involved in all the cultural and political events of his day.
 
Drawn from the three-volume German edition of his correspondence, this collection includes letters both to and from the leading personalities of his day—Albert Einstein and Albert Schweitzer, Hemann Hesse, Franz Kafka, and Stefan Zweig, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion, S.Y. Agnon, Gershom Scholem, and Franz Rosenzweig. These exchanges capture the dynamics of seven decades of lived history, reflected through the eyes of a man who was the conscience of his generation.
 
One of the leading spiritual thinkers of the twentieth century, Buber is best known for his work of religious existentialism, I and Thou. A prime mover in the German-Jewish renaissance of the 1920s, he taught comparative religion and Jewish ethics at the University of Frankfurt. Fleeing the Nazis in 1938, Buber made his home in Jerusalem, where he taught social philosophy at the Hebrew University. As resident sage of Jerusalem, he developed an international reputation and following, and carried on a vigorous correspondence on social, political, and religious issues until the end of his life.
 
Included in this collection are Buber’s exchanges with many Americans in the latter part of his life: Will Herberg, Walter Kaufmann, Maurice Friedman, Malcolm Diamond, and other individuals who sought his advice and guidance. In the voices of these letters, a full-blooded portrait emerges of a towering intellect ever striving to live up to philosophy of social engagement.

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    September 4, 2013

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      • ISBN: 9780804150132

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    • English

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 3, 1992
      Culled from the three-volume German edition of his correspondence, these letters trace Martin Buber's (1878-1965) transition from mystically inclined man of letters to teacher of his people who preached a renewed sense of community, a binational Palestinian homeland and a humanistic socialism derived from the Gospels and the Old Testament prophets. Marked by conversational spontaneity, Buber's letters underscore the growing contradiction and ultimate incompatibility of his roles as Zionist and a man very much at home in German culture. Along with playful, tender missives to his wife, Paula Winkler, there are fruitful exchanges with an extraordinary range of luminaries, among them Einstein, Hesse, Schweitzer, Kafka, Herzl, Camus, Chaim Weizmann, S. Y. Agnon, Stefan Zweig and Dag Hammarskjold. This lively selection was edited by Buber's close associate Glatzer, who died in 1990, and Mendes-Flohr, a professor of Jewish thought at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Photos.

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