Martin Buber and the Holocaust: Some Reconsiderations

by Richard L. Rubenstein (November 2012)

to Buber for whom the relationship between man and the Eternal Thou is utterly without mediation.

consequences of impotent servility.²⁷

political Zionism had arisen.

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1968).

Religion (New York: Harper and Row, 1952).

8) Buber, Eclipse of God , p. 129.

p. 164.

26) Neusner, lac. cit .

 29) Buber , “What is to be Done” (1919) in Pointing the Way, ed. and trans. Maurice Friedman (New York:  Harper and Row, 1963), p. 109. 

  30) This statement is  cited by Greta Schaeder  ,  The Hebrew Humanism of  Martin Buber, trans. Noah J. Jacobs (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1973), p. 197.

32) Tillich, loc. cit.

33) Tillich, loc. cit.

Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1970).

Richard L. Rubenstein is President Emeritus of the University of Bridgeport. His latest book is Jihad and Genocide (Rowman and Littlefield: 2011).

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