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Buber

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Bu·ber  (bbr), Martin 1878-1965.
Austrian-born Judaic scholar and philosopher whose influential I and Thou (1923) posits a direct personal dialogue between God and the individual.

Buber [ˈbuːbə]
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(Biographies / Buber, Martin (1878-1965) M, Jewishnational of birth: Austrian, RELIGION: theologian, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher, RELIGION: scholar) Martin. 1878-1965, Jewish theologian, existentialist philosopher, and scholar of Hasidism, born in Austria, whose works include I and Thou (1923), Between Man and Man (1946), and Eclipse of God (1952)
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Noun1.Buber - Israeli religious philosopher (born in Austria); as a Zionist he promoted understanding between Jews and Arabs; his writings affected Christian thinkers as well as Jews (1878-1965)


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For those who nurture this frail hope, the recovery of non-separationist, pre-1948 forms of Zionism will be essential, with the work of such visionary proponents of bi-nationalism as Martin Buber and Hannah Arendt gaining renewed importance.
His voice--which stands in the tradition of such Jewish spokesmen for peace and justice as Ahad Ha'am, Martin Buber, and his own former colleagues Rabbi Elmer Berger and Israel Shahak--will be sorely missed.
If there is one central, interconnecting principle that Berdyaev applies to an understanding of the meaning of history, it is found in his condemnation of economic and historical materialism and of kindred abstract interpretations that degrade the life of the soul and enshrine what Martin Buber termed the state of "thingification.
 
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