Word: buber
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Vienna's population has slipped from 2,000,000 in 1910 to 1,600,000 today. Where once it was the center of a rich culture that produced, among dozens of other brilliant men. Dr. Sigmund Freud, Philosopher Martin Buber and Composer Arnold Schoenberg, today, mourns Werner Hoffman, director of Vienna's only gallery of modern art, "Austria simply is not avantgarde. People are brought up cherishing concepts of the 19th century, and the stimulating effect of the Jewish element is missing." Attracted by better pay and opportunity, thousands of young Austrian intellectuals have deserted the Danube...
Goldstein was written, produced and directed by two bright University of Chicago graduates, Philip Kaufman and Benjamin Manaster, who claim on slender evidence to have drawn inspiration from Israeli Philosopher Martin Buber's gentle, anecdotal Tales of the Hasidim. Blessed with strikingly good photography and the witty commentary of Meyer Kupferman's musical score, the movie was hailed by enraptured critics at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival as a wildly satirical fable. Actually, Goldstein is merely the sort of cinematic cliché in which a young hero says yes to life by running from scene to scene...
Baeck, who died nine years ago, is revered as a saint of modern Judaism, and as one of the last towering figures of the German Jewish renaissance that produced such men as Freud, Einstein, Kafka and Martin Buber. Born in Prussia, he studied philosophy at the University of Berlin, and as a rabbi in Silesia, Dusseldorf and Berlin emerged as one of Germany's great articulators of Reform Judaism. When Protestant Theologian Adolf von Harnack declared Judaism to be a spiritually inferior faith in his The Essence of Christianity, Baeck replied with The Essence of Judaism. Baeck defended Judaism...
...faculty. "In the old days, Catholic schools were more concerned with virtue than intellectual achievement. We're still concerned with virtue, but we see college as an intellectual unfolding." A philosophy student says that the most stimulating books she read all year were by Jewish Philosopher Martin Buber. The Catholic Index of Forbidden Books is frequently ignored. "Religion permeates everything," says Art Major Kay Kurt, "but you don't hear God, God, God all the time...
Your article on Martin Buber was very illuminating. As a Jew who is fiercely proud of the state of Israel, I nevertheless cannot understand how any group within or without Judaism could be "shocked" that Buber has devoted great efforts to the improvement of Arab-Israeli relations. This historic and emotional enmity undermines real progress in the Middle East; only if and when this poison is made innocuous can the Arab nations devote their energies to what is really important...