| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780226078021 | | Publisher: University of Chicago Press | | Publish Date: 4/16/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30695183 | | Item#: R2QEEF | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.25H x 5.5L x 0.75T | | Pages: 342 |
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| | | 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 voluminous writings on Arab-Jewish relations in Palestine, Buber united his religious and philosophical teachings with his politics, which he felt were essential to a life of public dialogue and service to God.
Collected in "A "Land of Two Peoples are the private and open letters, addresses, and essays in which Buber advocated binationalism as a solution to the conflict in the Middle East. A committed Zionist, Buber steadfastly articulated the moral necessity for reconciliation and accommodation between the Arabs and Jews. From the Balfour Declaration of November 1917 to his death in 1965, he campaigned passionately for a "one state solution.
With the Middle East embroiled in religious and ethnic chaos, "A Land of Two Peoples remains as relevant today as it was when it was first published more than twenty years ago. This timely reprint, which includes a new preface by Paul Mendes-Flohr, offers context and depth to current affairs and will be welcomed by those interested in Middle Eastern studies and political theory.
| Author Bio| Martin Buber | | Martin Buber was born in Vienna and raised in what is now the Ukraine by his paternal grandfather, Salomon Buber, a noted Hebrew scholar. Exposed to his rich religious and cultural heritage at a young age, Buber absorbed the mystical tradition of Hasidism, which inspired his later religious, existentialist writings. Between 1897 and 1904, he studied philosophy and art history at universities in Vienna, Leipzig, Zurich, and Berlin, receiving his Ph.D. in German mysticism at the University of Vienna in 1904. He held the only chair in Jewish philosophy at a German university between 1923 and 1933, in Frankfurt, until he was named director of Jewish adult education, a post he held until his exile to Palestine in 1938. In Jerusalem, he was a professor of social philosophy at Hebrew University until 1951. As a student, Buber had become involved in Theodor Herzl's Zionist movement, and continued to promote its cause until the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. Though Buber is perhaps best known for the religious philosophy he expounded in such works as "I and Thou", he was a prolific translator, translating a range of material from little-known Hasidic works to the entire Hebrew Bible, into modern German. Buber received various honorary degrees and literary prizes, including a nomination for the Nobel Prize in literature in 1949. |
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