The Lady with the Fan is a famous painting by Gustav Klimt. No one knows who she is. Klimt often painted Jewish women, and ...

Just before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the National Library of Israel has unveiled a timely letter from its Martin Buber Archive. In 1965 Buber, just before his death, joined a group of Hebrew ...

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My discussion with NYFA's Artist as Entrepreneur Bootcamp participants made me think of Martin Buber's book, I and Thou. He describes two basic modes of engaging the world: experience and encounter.

Mendes-Flohr (Gershom Scholem), professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School, showcases his expertise in this definitive but dense and jargon-filled biography of the Austrian-born ...

Martin Buber was born in pre-Nazi Austria and emigrated to Israel in 1938 where he spent much of the rest of his life. He grappled with Zionism, Jewish thought, secular philosophy and politics and the ...

One afternoon in 1914, Franz Kafka visited the Berlin home of the philosopher and teacher Martin Buber. Kafka came to solicit the sage’s advice on the workings of divine justice. More than four ...

Looking to have social and spiritual impact during these challenging times? Find direction and inspiration in the teachings of 20th century Jewish thinker, Martin Buber. As an example of Buber’s ...

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 ...

Following a fall college semester abroad in Jerusalem, with instruction from Jewish, Muslim, and Christian teachers, I spent the January term reading Martin Buber’s works in English translation: Tales ...

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 ...