Martin Buber
Martin Buber Martin Buber was born in Vienna on 8 February 1878 and died in Jerusalem on 13 June 1965. Raised in Lemberg (Lviv) in the home of his grandfather, the scholar Salomon Buber, he studied philosophy, art history, and German studies in Vienna, Leipzig, Berlin, and Zurich. He became involved early with cultural Zionism and devoted himself to the study of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish tradition of Eastern Europe, which he popularized in works such as The Tales of Rabbi Nachman (1906) and The Legend of the Baal-Shem (1908). From 1925 until the work’s completion in 1961 he translated the Hebrew Bible into German, in collaboration with Franz Rosenzweig and then alone after the latter’s death in 1929. He taught at Frankfurt (1924–1933); with the rise of Nazism he emigrated to Palestine in 1938, where he taught social philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ...