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The prophetic faith

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Martin Buber (1878-1965) is perhaps most widely known (at least in English) for the Philosophy of Dialogue, and for his re-tellings of Eastern-European Jewish traditions ("Tales of the Hasidim," "Tales of Rabbi Nachman," "Tales of the Baal Shem"). These last (plus some shorter works) present a charming picture of the "Pietist" Hasidic movement in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and are a major literary accomplishment, but they have been criticized for projecting too much of Buber's own belief in religious spontaneity onto the generally tradition-minded religious leaders he depicts. It is also clear that Buber glossed over the basis of much Hasidic doctrine in the mystical teachings of an earlier social elite..

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234.2 BUB p

Publisher

New York : Harper & Row., 1960

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246p.; 20 cm.

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English

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234.2

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FAITH

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