RT Article
T1 Martin Buber’s engagement with Hebrew as political activism
JF Journal of Jewish studies
VO 75
IS 2
SP 361
OP 384
A1 Sharf, Or 1977-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1920671579
AB This article follows Martin Buber’s (1878-1965) engagement with Hebrew in the context of his political activism, focusing on the 1930s and 1940s. It examines Buber’s paradoxical command of the language and years-long lack of fluency, which he finally acquired upon immigrating to Palestine in 1938. It is argued that between 1933 and 1948 Buber crafted his translations and authored works in a manner that employed specific resonances of the Hebrew language to advocate his ideology. The article presents Buber’s sophisticated employment of his expert knowledge of Hebrew in the service of political activism, in Nazi Germany and British Mandate Palestine, demonstrating how Hebrew figures both in his theological-political programme and in his political activism in specific circumstances.
K1 Buber
K1 Hebrew
K1 Martin
K1 Modern period
K1 Zionism
K1 Ideology
K1 Language
K1 Philosophy
K1 political activism
K1 Theology
DO 10.3828/jjs.2024.75.2.361