Word: buber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after all, as ancient as the Diaspora. But Herzl alone took it from vision to plan to practicality. On the way he assumed the countenance and the stature of a prophet, sweeping all objections from his path. A feral magnetism began to animate his face and conversation. Philosopher Martin Buber was later to recall him as "a statue without error or mistake, a countenance lit with the glance of the Messiah." Freud claimed that he had seen Herzl in a dream before they met. Others were less impressed. The Emperor Franz Josef, proud of his nation's liberal airs...
...naively thought, they could hasten to fulfillment by painting pictures. (It is only fair to recall that Hitler, who banned expressionism as "degenerate art" in 1933, shared this delusion about its political potency.) Emotional vulnerability became the expressionist weapon on behalf of the masses-"those individual people," as Martin Buber wrote, "naked under their clothes, blood coursing under their skins, all of whose exposed heartbeats together would drown out the united voices of the machines." The pictorial result was a labored and rather masochistic fortissimo, executed in the belief that feeling was all: jagged lines, dissonant and fulgid colors, heavy...
...addition to the striking art, the ancient rhythms of the Haggadah text are punctuated by a thoughtful anthology of contemporary and historical readings. Martin Buber retells a Hasidic story. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel discusses the Sabbath. Erich Fromm talks about idols, Elie Wiesel about Jewishness, and a passage from The Diary of Anne Frank touchingly describes how to be hopeful in adversity...
...death of God to staging folk-rock masses, none of them particularly "radical" in any substantial way. In fact, none of the so-called radical theologians, including Cox himself, has proved either as substantive or as radical as the three humbler men from whom they learned their stuff, Bonhoeffer, Buber and Tillich...
...author of a previous religious novel, The Carpenter Years (and non-fiction books on Martin Buber and The Natural and the Supernatural Jew), Arthur Cohen knows all the odds, creative and commercial. Yet he has taken on a saint and a fable in fiction, and won -apparently by sheer moral passion...