Martin Buber’s “I and Thou” has become a cult classic of modern Western theology in the years since it was first published in Germany, nearly a century ago. The book took intellectual and spiritual ...

“I and Thou,” a short treatise by the Jewish theologian Martin Buber, was published in German in 1923; by the time it appeared in English, fourteen years later, the translator could already call it ...

The Vienna-born Jewish philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965) is best remembered by English readers for such texts as “Tales of the Hasidim,” “Between Man and Man,” and “I and Thou.” Yet German readers ...

Fifty years after his death in Jerusalem in 1965, Martin Buber, the Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher has “left an ambiguous impression,” as Walter Benjamin wrote to Gershom Scholem in 1936 ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. Just before ...

Israel’s bombing and incursion into Gaza raise the question of proportionality. In addition to numerous war crimes and/or crimes against humanity, the fundamental of proportionality is being ...

In all spheres of his intellectual and political life, Jewish philosopher and theologian Martin Buber (1878-1965) not only remained an outsider, but had the courage to stand his ground as an outsider.

Martin Buber, one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of the 20th century, had a career that spanned more than six decades. How, then, to gather the most representative pieces of his work into a ...

In the late 1950s and 1960s, a debate, although passionate nevertheless, based on mutual respect and admiration, took place between the philosopher-theologian, Martin Buber (who immigrated to ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Robert Alter MARTIN BUBER A Life of Faith and Dissent By Paul Mendes-Flohr Martin Buber vaulted ...