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Martin Buber, 1878-1965. Austrian-born Judaic scholar and philosopher whose influential I and Thou posits a direct personal dialogue between God and the individual.
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existentialism and Martin Buberdied June 13, 1965, Jerusalem
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God. --Martin Buber
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Man’s threefold living relation is:
Martin Buber was the son of Carl Buber, an agronomist, and his wife--both assimilated Jews. When Buber was three his mother left his father, and the boy was brought up by his grandparents in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine). The search after the lost mother became a strong motive for Buber's dialogical thinking--his I-Thou philosophy. Solomon Buber (1827-1906), the Lemberg grandfather, a wealthy philanthropist, dedicated his life to the critical edition of Midrashim, a part of the nonlegal rabbinic lore. His works show him as a Hebrew gentleman-scholar who was also interested in Greek linguistic parallels. His wife, Adele, was even more a product of the 19th-century Enlightenment movement among eastern European Jewry that sought to modernize Jewish culture. |
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