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<p>As a college student at the University of Leipzig and then Berlin, Martin Buber was a leader in the early Zionist movement. During this period between 1898 and 1902, he published a series of Zionist writings that were clearly meant to be confrontational and challenge those embraced traditional Judaism.<P>These essays, poems, and speeches, given nearly one hundred years ago, have never been translated until now and are considered some of the most important and exciting of Buber's texts.<P>For Buber, Zionism was not primarily a political issue. It implied a reorientation of the entire being, an overcoming of a Diaspora mentality, a catharsis, and a readiness to build in the land of Israel a new, just, free, and creative community.</p> <h3>Library Journal</h3> <p>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 the

Author

Buber, Martin, 1878-1965; Schmidt, Gilya Gerda

Publisher

Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780815605959

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Fiction