ABSTRACT
Martin Buber was well known to Jewish and non-Jewish publics, between 1900 and 1919, as the author who was a member of the Zionist movement, the defender of a profound and necessary renewal in Judaism and the popularizer of Jewish and non-Jewish mystical texts and currents. In 1916 Buber published a collection of texts, written between 1900 and 1915 in his role as a spiritual leader of Zionism, whose title is The Jewish Movement. The Jewish renaissance seems to him to be only an aspect of the universal awakening of all nations to the free expression of their needs and values. In Buber's articles published between 1916 and 1919 in Der Jude – the Zionist journal he directed – the same call is evident: a call to the immediacy of feeling as the ground from which one acts freely according to the rules which the subject himself gives to his life.
