When the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig entitled his 1926 collection of essays on Jewish and universal cultural topics Zweistromland?a land of two rivers?he meant to underscore, indeed cel
These ten papers are drawn from a conference (date unknown) held at the institution whose founding president was Buber, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. They seek to honor Buber's eclect
Theologian, philosopher, and political radical, Martin Buber (1878–1965) was actively committed to a fundamental economic and political reconstruction of society as well as the pursuit of internationa
Eight Israeli scholars review and celebrate the work of Scholem (1897-1982) who early this century founded the academic discipline that studies Jewish mysticism, thus permanently altering the whole fi
Available for the first time in paperback, Ecstatic Confessions is Martin Buber's unique, personal gathering of the testimonies of mystics throughout the centuries expressing their encounters with th
