"How did one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of the 20th century grapple with the founding of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--one of the most significant political conflicts of his time? Samuel Hayim Brody traces the development of Martin Buber's thinking and its implications for the Jewish religion, for the problems posed by Zionism, and for the Zionist-Arab conflict. Beginning in turbulent Weimar Germany, Brody shows how Buber's debates...

Deepen connections with the people you love. Build relationships with the people you meet. We can go through each day-or a lifetime-as sleepwalkers while awake, tossing and turning on pillows that are as hard as appointment books, wandering a paved spiritual wilderness from bank window to house of worship to hospital bedside. But if we are fortunate enough to happen upon a vision of the Divine-in a chance chat with a semi-stranger or a lingering...

Life and work of a contemporary religious thinker, and relationship to philosophies of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard.

"Beginning in the summer of 1950 and ending with Buber's death, this volume informs the reader about Buber's three visits to America, his wife's death, the author's stay in Jerusalem, and the articulation of Buber's culminating philosophy of the interhuman ... Friedman draws extensively on his personal collection of letters exchanged with Buber"--Page 2 of cover.