A Land Of Two Peoples

by Mendes-Flohr, Paul R.; Buber, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780226078021
• ISBN10: 0226078027
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

"Theologian, philosopher, and political radical, Martin Buber (1878-1965) was committed to a fundamental economic and political reconstruction of society as well as the pursuit of international peace. Collected in here are the private and open letters, addresses, and essays - from the Bafour Declaration of November 1917 to his death - in which Buber advocated an active pursuit of mutual accommodation as a solution to the conflict in the Middle East."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Martin Buber was professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he taught courses in anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and Hasidic and biblical studies. He is best known for his book I and Thou. Paul Mendes-Flohr is professor of Jewish studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and professor of modern Jewish thought in the Divinity School, the Department of History, and the Committee on Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Preface, 2004	xiii
Acknowledgments	xix
Introduction	3	(69)
1 A State of Cannons, Flags, and Military Decorations?	35	(3)
(February 1918)
2 Toward the Decision	38	(4)
(March 1919)
3 At This Late Hour	42	(5)
(April 1920)
4 Nationalism	47	(11)
(September 1921)
5 A Proposed Resolution on the Arab Question	58	(4)
(September 1921)
6 Resolution on the Arab Question of the Twelfth Zionist Congress	62	(2)
(September 1921)
7 Notes from the Congress Concerning Zionist Policy	64	(4)
(October 1921)
8 Sidelights	68	(2)
(April 1922)
9 Responsa on Zionist Policy	70	(2)
(September 1922)
10 Brith Shalom	72	(4)
(1925)
11 Soul-Searching	76	(2)
(April 1926)
12 No More Declarations	78	(3)
(August 1929)
13 The National Home and National Policy in Palestine	81	(11)
(October 1929)
14 The Wailing Wall	92	(3)
(October 1929)
15 Hans Kohn: "Zionism Is Not Judaism"	95	(5)
(November 1929)
16 And If Not Now, When?	100	(6)
(July 1932)
17 Mohandas K. Gandhi: The Jews	106	(5)
(November 1938)
18 A Letter to Gandhi	111	(15)
(February 1939)
19 Keep Faith!	126	(4)
(July 1938)
20 Our Pseudo-Samsons	130	(4)
(June 1939)
21 And Today?	134	(3)
(March 1939)
22 Concerning Our Politics	137	(5)
(August 1939)
23 False Prophets	142	(2)
(Spring 1940)
24 Let Us Avoid Provocations!	144	(4)
(3 March 1940)
25 The Ichud	148	(2)
(September 1942)
26 In the Days of Silence	150	(1)
(1943)
27 Do Not Believe It!	151	(4)
(June 1944)
28 Nathan Rotenstreich: I Believed-Too Hastily?	155	(2)
(August 1944)
29 An Additional Clarification: A Reply to Nathan Rotenstreich	157	(3)
(August 1944)
30 Dialogue on the Biltmore Program	160	(4)
(October 1944)
31 A Majority or Many? A Postscript to a Speech	164	(5)
(May 1944)
32 Politics and Morality	169	(4)
(April 1945)
33 Our Reply	173	(6)
(September 1945)
34 The Meaning of Zionism	179	(6)
(March 1946)
35 A Tragic Conflict?	185	(4)
(May 1946)
36 It Is Not Sufficient!	189	(3)
(July 1946)
37 A Plea for Clemency	192	(2)
(August 1946)
38 Two Peoples in Palestine	194	(9)
(June 1947)
39 Can the Deadlock Be Broken?	203	(4)
(July 1947)
40 The Bi-National Approach to Zionism	207	(8)
(1947)
41 Let Us Not Allow the Rabble To Rule Us!	215	(2)
(January 1948)
42 A Fundamental Error Which Must Be Corrected	217	(3)
(April 1948)
43 Zionism and "Zionism"	220	(4)
(May 1948)
44 On the Assassination of Count Bernadotte	224	(2)
(September 1948)
45 Let Us Make an End to Falsities!	226	(2)
(October 1948)
46 Gideon Freudenberg: War and Peace. An Open Letter to Martin Buber	228	(8)
(December 1948)
47 Facts and Demands: A Reply to Gideon Freudenberg	236	(3)
(circa January 1949)
48 On the Moral Character of the State of Israel: A Debate with David Ben-Gurion	239	(6)
(March 1949)
49 Should the Ichud Accept the Decree of History?	245	(8)
(Spring 1949)
50 The Children of Amos	253	(5)
(April 1949)
51 "Preface" to a Projected Volume on Arab-Jewish Rapprochement	258	(3)
(circa 1950)
52 A Protest Against Expropriation of Arab Lands	261	(2)
(March 1953)
53 We Need the Arabs, They Need Us!	263	(6)
(January 1954)
54 Instead of Polemics	269	(4)
(November 1956)
55 An Outrage	273	(2)
(November 1956)
56 Socialism and Peace	275	(3)
(1956)
57 Active Neutralism	278	(2)
(October 1957)
58 Letters from Arabs to Buber	280	(3)
(1958-1965)
59 Memorandum on the Military Government	283	(6)
(February 1958)
60 Israel and the Command of the Spirit	289	(5)
(April 1958)
61 Letter to Ben-Gurion on the Arab Refugees	294	(2)
(October 1961)
62 Ben-Gurion and Israel's Arabs	296	(1)
(January 1962)
63 We Must Grant the Arabs Truly Equal Rights	297	(3)
(January 1962)
64 On the Development of the Galilee: An Exchange between Buber and Levi Eshkol	300	(3)
(October 1964)
65 The Time To Try	303	(3)
(February 1965)
Sources	306	(9)
Index	315	(6)
Buber's Legacy: 1993	321