ABSTRACT
Martin Buber was a Jewish existential philosopher and theologist who was born in Vienna and worked in Germany and Israel for most of his life. He was Professor of the Philosophy of Jewish Religion and Ethics at Frankfurt University, and fled to Palestine in 1938, where he was appointed Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Buber’s philosophy reflects the Jewish movement of Hassidism very strongly and this religion of sanctification of everyday tensions and joys can be seen clearly in all his writings. He is a mystic who seeks union not just in union with the divine but primarily through human relating.
