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Philosopher Buber...
Zionists & Mystics. Buber was born in Vienna, but grew up, after his parents' divorce, in the home of his grandfather in Austrian Galicia. Devoutly observant as a child, Buber gave up Jewish religious practice at the age of 13, and came strongly under the influence of German idealism and phenomenology as a student of philosophy at Vienna University. Buber was an active Zionist, and for several years he worked closely with Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann. But at the same time he was deeply influenced by Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard, and some of his first writings were on the German...
...Buber came across a testament of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the 18th century's wonder-working Baal Shem Tov (the good master of the divine name) who founded Hasidism. Buber gave up politics and journalism to spend five years studying Hasidic texts, then wrote the first of his ten books that retell the legends and learning of the Hasidic rabbis. During the early '30s, he and the late Rabbi Leo Baeck were the unquestioned leaders of Germany's Jewish community; Buber organized schools, edited anti-Nazi journals, and in "The Question to the Single One" wrote...
...Buber's philosophy of dialogue also leads to a striking interpretation of Scripture. Neither an infallible guide to man's conduct nor a collection of legends, the Bible is a dialogue between the speaking I of God and the hearing Thou of Israel. Buber's disciple Maurice Friedman calls it "the historical account of God's relation to man seen through man's eyes." Admiration & Shock. Buber is the most widely read Jewish thinker of the century, although there are plenty of Catholics and Protestants who are more enthusiastic about his work than some...
...Buber believes that an I-Thou meeting between men is more than ever necessary in a world threatened by atomic ruin. "Politicians do not talk with one another to reach a real understanding based on their aims," says Buber, who has little expectation that world leaders will listen to him. "I think the main problems existing between great powers should be talked over in a different way. They should talk to each other as do good merchants who have opposed each other but have begun to see that it's worthwhile to find out if, perchance, their common interests...