Martin Buber's Theopolitics

How did one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of the 20th century grapple with the founding of Israel and the Israeli—Palestinian conflict—one of the most significant political conflicts of his time? Samuel Hayim Brody traces the development of Martin Buber's thinking and its implications for the Jewish religion, for the problems posed by Zionism, and for the Zionist—Arab conflict. Beginning in turbulent Weimar Germany, Brody shows how Buber's debates about Biblical meanings had concrete poli...