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A definitive, international guide to the thought of the most important twentieth-century Jewish philosopher.
In his 1923 essay, I and Thou, the philosopher, theologian, and activist Martin Buber introduced a…
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Martin Buber
A new edition of Martin Buber's many writings on Arab-Jewish relations in Palestine, with updated forewords by two preeminent Palestinian and Jewish scholars.
The theologian and philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965)…
This remarkable work presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is a truly life-enhancing book.
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Martin Wasserman
Martin 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…
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The sacred tales and aphorisms collected here by Martin Buber have their origins in the traditional Hasidic metaphor of life as a ladder, reaching towards the divine by ascending rungs…
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, first published in 1886, ranks among the most influential works of moral philosophy to have shaped contemporary conceptions of identity, religion, democracy, psychology, and…
Buber Martin 1878-1965
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Stephen M. Panko
Because Martin Buber lived, there is more love in the world than there would have been without him. And for him that was the reason above all others for the…
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This collection of 700 letters traces Martin Buber’s transition from mystically inclined man of letters to teacher of his people who preached a renewed sense of community, a binational Palestinian…
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At the turn of the century Martin Buber arrived on the philosophic scene. His path to maturity was one long struggle with the problem of unity - in particular with…
Samuel Hayim Brody
Brody argues that Buber’s support for Israel stemmed from a radically rich and complex understanding of the nature of the Jewish mission on earth that arose from an anarchist reading…
These 20 stories about the founder of the Hasidic faith, Israel ben Eliezer, called the Baal-Shem or Master of God’s Name, provide an account of the genesis of Hasidism, still…
This work contains the autobiographical fragments Buber selected, and also wrote afresh, at Princeton in 1958 and in Jerusalem in 1960, in collaboration with Dr Friedman.
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Buber makes explicit the place of Hasidism among world religious, contrasting it with biblical prophecy, Spinoza, Freud, Sankara, Meister Eckhart, Gnosticism, Christianity, Zionism, and Zen Buddhism.
Buber poetically interprets the central aspects of Hasidic life, offers a selection of sayings from Baal-Shem-Tov, and movingly recounts his personal path to Hasidism.
A study of the political communal image of kingship in the Old Testament.
Originally published in German in 1923, I and Thou was an influential work that explained the meaning behind human existence. Buber explains that existence can be addressed in two ways…
Martin Buber believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. Between Man and Man is the classic work where he puts…
In this work, Buber expounds upon and defends the Zionist experiment - a federal system of communities on a co-operative basis. He looks to the anarchists Proudhon, Kropotkin and Gustav…
Famous Zionist philosopher Martin Buber introduces the philosophies of Hasidism to a Western audience in his modern masterpiece. This book is a result of forty years of study, and Buber…
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Martin Buber believed that life’s deepest truth lies in human relationships. In this classic work he puts this belief into practice, applying it to the concrete problems of contemporary society.
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Meetings sets forth the life of one of the 20th-century’s greatest spiritual philosophers, Martin Buber, in his own words. It seeks not to describe his life in its full entirety…
In this short text, Martin Buber’s enormous learning and wisdom are distilled into a simple, but compelling vision. It proposes nothing less than a new form of the Deity for…
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Martin Buber contrasts the faith of Abraham with the faith of St Paul and ponders the possibilities of reconciliation between the two. He offers a sincere and reverent Jewish view…
This new paperback edition brings together volumes one and two of Buber’s classic work Takes of the Hasidim, with a new foreword by Chaim Potok. Martin Buber devoted forty years…
‘The question I put before you, as well as before myself, is the question of the meaning of Judaism for the Jews. Why do we call ourselves Jews? I want…
Better than any other single work, Daniel enables us to understand the significance of the transition Buber made from his early mysticism to the philosophy of dialogue. The book is…
Written over a period of forty years, Martin Buber’s essays represent a dual attempt to clarify the relation of certain aspects of Jewish thinking and Jewish living to contemporary intellectual…
Martin Buber,Paul Arthur Schilpp,Maurice S. Friedman
Part of a series of studies of contemporary philosophers, this volume focuses on Martin Buber.
Gilya G Schmidt
Martin Buber was a leader in the early Zionist movement. Between 1898 and 1902 he published a series of writings that were clearly meant to be confrontational and challenge those…
