The First Buber (Paperback)

Gilya G. Schmidt

ISBN 10: 0815605951 / ISBN 13: 9780815605959

Published by Syracuse University Press, New York, 1999

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Paperback. As a college student Martin Buber was a leader in the early Zionist movement. During the period between 1898 and 1902 he published a series of Zionist writings that were clearly meant to be confrontational and challenge those who embraced traditional Judaism. These essays, poems and speeches have been translated and collected here in this text. For Buber Zionism was not primarily a political issue. it implied a reorientation of the entire being, on overcoming of a Diaspora mentality, a catharsis and a readiness to build in the land of Israel a new, just, free and creative community. Martin Buber was a leader in the early Zionist movement. Between 1898 and 1902 he published a series of writings that were clearly meant to be confrontational and challenge those who embraced traditional Judaism. This collection presents the translations of his essays, poems and speeches. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The First Buber (Paperback)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815605951
• ISBN 13: 9780815605959
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

As a college student Martin Buber was a leader in the early Zionist movement. During the period between 1898 and 1902 he published a series of Zionist writings that were clearly meant to be confrontational and challenge those who embraced traditional Judaism.

Reviews

Schmidt (Martin Buber's Formative Years: From German Culture to Jewish Renewal, 1898-1909) breaks important ground with these first English translations of seminal Jewish thinker Buber's early Zionist poems, essays, and speeches (written between 1898 and 1909). The work published here exceeds all expectations, showing the foundations not only of Buber's theoretical but also of his practical thought. Here we can see, in their earliest forms, his ideas about Hebrew humanism, his methods of logic, and his early, clear adherence to Theodore Herzl's ideas. (Both of them strove to reeducate the nation and preached that each Jew must overcome the Diaspora mentality to become a free builder of the land of Israel.) A wonderful translator, Schmidt has done an excellent job with difficult texts. Highly recommended for academic and public libraries and Jewish institutions.AHayim Y. Sheynin, Gratz Coll. Lib., Melrose Park, PA
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