About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Alois Hess, Arik Brauer, Arthur Baar, Avraham Fahn, Avraham Sharon, David Rubinger, Dina Feitelson, Ehud Avriel, Erich Gruenberg, Felix Galimir, Franz Kraus, Gerhard Bronner, Gershon Shafat, Gershon Shaked, Gerson Goldhaber, Giora Bernstein, Haim Bar-Lev, Israel Bar, Joachim Stutschewsky, Leo Goldhammer, Leo Perutz, Manfred Gerstenfeld, Martin Buber, Menachem Avidom, Mira Lobe, Mordechai-Haim Stern, Peretz Kidron, Shimshon Holzman, Shmuel Wosner, Sulamith Goldhaber, Teddy Kollek, Theodore Bikel, Tova Ilan, Trude Dothan, Walter Abish, Walter Hautzig, Yehezkel Dror, Yisrael Katz (Israeli politician (born 1927)), Yosef-Michael Lamm, Zita Linker. Excerpt: Martin Buber (Hebrew: February 8, 1878 - June 13, 1965) was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship. Born in Vienna, Buber came from a family of observant Jews, but broke with Jewish custom to pursue secular studies in philosophy. In 1902, he became the editor of the weekly Die Welt, the central organ of the Zionist movement, although he later withdrew from organizational work in Zionism. In 1923, Buber wrote his famous essay on existence, Ich und Du (later translated into English as I and Thou), and in 1925, he began translating the Hebrew Bible into the German language. In 1930, Buber became an honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main, but resigned in protest from his professorship immediately after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. He then founded the Central Office for Jewish Adult Education, which became an increasingly important body as the German government forbade Jews to attend public education. In 1938, Buber left Germany and settled in Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (later Israel), receiving a professorship at Hebrew University and lecturing in anthropology and introductory sociology. Buber's wife Paula died in 1958, and he died at his home in the Talbiyeh neighborhood of Jerusalem on June 13, 1965. Martin (Hebrew name:, Mordechai) Buber was born in Vienna to an Orthodox Jewish family. His grandfather, Solomon Buber, in whose house in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) Buber spent much of his childhood, was a renowned scholar of Midrash and Rabbinic Literature. At home Buber spoke Yiddish and German. In 1892 Buber returned to his father's house in Lemberg, today's Lviv, Ukraine. A personal religious crisis led him to break with Jewish religious customs: he started reading Immanuel Kant, Soren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The latter two, in particular, inspired him to pursue s
