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Eine der prägenden Gestalten der deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte war Martin Buber, der Philosoph und politische Verfechter des Dialogs, der Verständigung, des Gesprächs von Ich und Du, wie sein Hauptwerk heißt. 1878 in Wien geboren, in Lemberg aufgewachsen, sammelte Buber früh Zeugnisse des chassidischen Lebens. 1902 war er einer der Mitbegründer des Jüdischen Verlags und der Monatszeitschrift Der Jude. Seine religionsphilosophischen Beiträge hab...

This volume of essays constitutes a critical evaluation of Martin Buber's concept of dialogue as a trans-disciplinary hermeneutic method. So conceived, dialogue has two distinct but ultimately convergent vectors. The first is directed to the subject of one's investigation: one is to listen to the voice of the Other and to suspend all predetermined categories and notions that one may have of the Other, dialogue is, first and foremost, the art o...

Contemporary Jews variously configure their identity, which is no longer necessarily defined by an observance of the Torah and God's commandments. Indeed, the Jews of modernity are no longer exclusively Jewish. They are affiliated with many communities-vocational, professional, political, and cultural-whose interests may not coincide with that of the community of their birth and inherited culture. In Cultural Disjunctions, Paul Mendes-Flohr ex...

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In the early part of the twentieth century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) founded the academic discipline of the study of Jewish Mysticism. In so doing, he not only broke new scholarly ground, but he also revolutionized the field of Judaic Studies as a whole and left an indelible mark on the study of religion. This book presents essays by several of Israel's eminent scholars, reflecting on Scholem's impact on the academic and Jewish worlds, and ...

The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber

The volume represents a tribute to the two hundred year legacy of Wissenschaft des Judentums and its singular contribution to not only modern Jewish self-understanding but also to the unfolding of humanistic cultural discourse. It is based on papers delivered at a conference, sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, by scholars from North American, Europe and Israel. The papers explore ramified historical and methodological issues.

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When the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig entitled his 1926 collection of essays on Jewish and universal cultural topics Zweistromland -- a land of two rivers -- he meant to underscore, indeed celebrate, the fact that German-Jewish culture is nurtured by both German culture and the Jewish religious and cultural heritage. In this thought-provoking book, Paul Mendes-Flohr explores through the prism of Rosenzweig's image how German Jews...

In this probing and original lecture, Paul Mendes-Flohr examines classical and modern Jewish commentaries on the biblical commandment, "Love your neighbour as yourself: I am the Lord” (Leviticus 19:18). The lecture concludes by addressing a question that vexed commentators throughout the generations: Can love be commanded?

Eleven essays on the life and thought of the Jewish philosopher and theologian Franz Rosenzweig.

For Gustav Landauer, literary critic and anarchist, scholar of mysticism and participant of the Bavarian revolution, culture and politics occupied the same spiritual space. While identifying with ethical socialism, his Jewish sensibility increasingly gained over the years, not only, but in great measure due to Buber's influence. This volume brings together leading scholars to assess Landauer's ramified literary and political activities, his li...

This book presents essays by several of Israel's eminent scholars, reflecting on Scholem's impact on the academic and Jewish worlds, and his life as a scholar, a Jewish thinker, and an activist. The editor has provided an intellectual and spiritual biography of Scholem.

A critical evaluation of Martin Buber's work and its diverse aspects of modern thought and culture.