Martin Buber: philosopher and visionary.(Biography)

Contemporary Review | December 22, 2008| | Copyright

Editor's Note: In November the German Education Minister Or Annette Schavan, on an official visit to Israel to mark the country's sixtieth anniversary, announced that the German government would fund a new Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prof. Sarah Stroumsa, Rector of the Hebrew University, said that 'establishment of this society [which] guarantees that our heritage, the legacy of our past cultures, the humanistic reflection on ideas and on human society [...] stems from a firm belief in the central role of the ...

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