(1878-1965)
A Jewish religious philosopher born in Vienna and settled in Palestine in 1938. Buber is the author of many books on Jewish philosophy, general philosophy, Hasidism, theology, Zionist theory, and the Bible. His fame, which was greater in the non-Jewish world than in Israel itself, was based primarily on his philosophy of a dialogue between God and man, as expressed in his books Between Man and Man (1947) and I and Thou (1958). He joined Judah Magnes and the Brit Shalom and Ihud Movements and advocated Arab-Jewish rapprochement as well as an Arab-Jewish binational state in Palestine. He died in Jerusalem.
See also Arab-Israeli Conflict.
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