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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)…
Paul Mendes-Flohr
This volume seeks to honour the memory and legacy of Martin Buber, one of the most illustrious members of the faculty of the Hebrew University and of the world of…
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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…
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Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg hat Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007) herausragende israelische Gelehrte in englisch- und deutschsprachigen Veroeffentlichungen in Europa und Nordamerika bekannt gemacht. Die zu diesem Zweck von ihm begrundete…
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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…
The identity of contemporary Jews is multifaceted, no longer necessarily defined by an observance of the Torah and God’s commandments. Indeed, the Jews of modernity are no longer exclusively Jewish…
The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber
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This second edition is an expanded and diverse collection of primary materials that trace Jewish experience in the modern period and illustrate the transformation of Jewish religion and culture and…
JPS is proud to reissue Cohen and Mendes-Flohr’s classic work, perhaps the most important, comprehensive anthology available on 20th century Jewish thought. This outstanding volume presents 140 concise yet authoritative…
Willi Goetschel
A major, original work of intellectual history that reassesses the philosophical project of Baruch Spinoza, uncovers his influence on later thinkers, and demonstrates how that crucial influence on Moses Mendelssohn…
Theologian, philosopher, and political radical, Martin Buber (1878-1965) was actively committed to a fundamental economic and political reconstruction of society as well as the pursuit of international peace. In his…
Paul Mendes-Flohr,Jehuda Reinharz
Presents a collection of primary materials that trace Jewish experience in the modern period and illustrate the transformation of Jewish religion and culture and identity beginning in the 17th and…
Nathan Rotenstreich
By making faith a philosophical rather than a theological matter, this book explores its essence as an awareness of how we relate within mundane reality to all that is beyond…
Paul Mendes-Flohr,Georg Eberhard Rumpf
Paul Mendes-Flohr explores through the prism of Rosenzweig’s image of ‘Zweistromland’ how German Jews have understood and contended with their twofold spiritual patrimony.
Hayim Greenberg
The Essential Hayim Greenberg is a landmark collection of essays by Hayim Greenberg, a founder of the Labor Zionist movement in America and a foremost writer, thinker, and activist in…
Originally published: University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1969.
For Gustav Landauer, literary critic and anarchist, participant of the Bavarian revolution and scholar of mysticism, culture and politics occupied the same spiritual space. This volume assesses Landauer’s literary and…
Note: The title for the previous English translations were "The Way of Man".
‘The Dialogical Turn’ considers an alternative to the established sociological theories of synthesis in response to the crisis of intellectual fragmentation. The ‘dialogical turn’ instead welcomes a plurality of orientations…
