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. ...
Originally published in German, this text is a study of Nazi policy towards gypsies during the Third Reich focusing on Camps Salzburg and Lackenbach. The author's research included piecing together fragments from Nazi documents, recollections of victims and formal records.
Illuminating the Jewish art exhibition at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1901, this study looks at its contributions to art and Jewish history and culture. Cultural Zionism was for the first time included into the official agenda, an important step for the politics of Zionism.
Martin Buber was born into two cultures, a Jewish family and the Austrian fatherland. At the turn of the century, he remarked that emancipation had failed, German culture was dying and that Jews were on their own. This book elucidates his creative genius and his contribution to Jewish renewal.
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