Author: Kingsmill, Edmée

Source: European Judaism, Volume 40, Number 2, Winter 2007 , pp. 90-101(12)

Abstract:

Maurice Friedman, Buber's biographer, writes of the controversy between Buber and Scholem that it 'touches on the soil of tragedy'. I will attempt to suggest some reasons why this was so. And then I will look at three pieces on Buber by Scholem, first, 'Martin Buber's Conception of Judaism', second, Scholem's tribute given 'At the Completion of Buber's Translation of the Bible', and third, 'Martin Buber's Interpretation of Hasidism'. I shall begin by giving some account of the early years of each which provides the background for the conflict between these two great but incompatible men.

DOI: 10.3167/ej.2007.400208

User name

 

Password

 

 

Remember me

 

 

 

• forgotten your password?
• Sign in via Athens