Word: buber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buber Speaks...
...MARTIN BUBER Jerusalem...
...school to make kids show the credentials for their assumptions." The same goes for religion: "Here at Brandeis you must not only prove an affirmative conviction but also a rejection." To keep religious debate alive. Sachar has continually plunged into "our intellectual Gulf Stream" such diverse theologians as Martin Buber, Jacques Maritain and Paul Tillich...
...Eichmann's case, Buber added, execution would nurture another antichrist myth and permit a second-rate individual to symbolize the tragedy of European Jewry; his death would only offer easy, vicarious expiation to the guilty...
Last week, when newspapers learned of Buber's plea for mercy, public reaction in Israel was overwhelmingly against him. Indirectly, Ben-Gurion gave a public answer to Buber. As the Israeli Supreme Court prepared to consider Eichmann's own appeal before handing down a verdict, the official government gazette published a regulation authorizing the appointment of "a man to execute a death sentence...