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From: The Christian Century
Date: 19930519
Author:Kollar, Nathan R.

Edited by Nahum Glatser and Paul Mendes-Flohr. Schocken, 722 pp., $45.00.

THIS COLLECTION of letters written between 1899 and 1965 tells us something about Martin Buber not seen in his works. Drawn from a three-volume German edition of his correspondence, these selections show him at the center of Jewish and German intellectual life. Theodor Herzel, Chaim Weismann, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka and Emil Brunner are among his correspondents.

Buber is the passive respondent in most of the letters. He seldom selects the topic to be discussed, but instead elaborates and expands ...

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