Martin Buber

Martin Buber was a jewish Austrian philosopher and Zionist. Like Heinrich Heine, he was related to Young Hegelian Karl Marx who wrote the Communist Manifesto. He was editor of Zionist magazine Die Welt of Theodor Herzl. He was a friend of Else Lasker-Schüler (married to Georg Lewin of Der Sturm, Monte Verita community of the OTO). From 1930 to 1933 he taught at the University of Frankfurt (Frankfurt School). He pushed the gay agenda as activist against Paragraph 175 with Magnus Hirschfeld, Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Herman Hesse.  Like Carl Jung and Gershom Scholem, he participated in the Eranos conferences of the Theosophists (British Intelligence) at Monte Verita. In 1938 he moved to Jerusalem and became a member of Ihud with Henrietta Szold (Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America) and Brit Shalom with Arthur Ruppin (Jewish Agency).

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He founded Die Jude and worked with Stefan Rosenzweig.

His son Rafael Buber married Margaret Buber-Neuman, who was interned at Ravensbrück, worked for CIA front CCF with Arthur Koestler and later married the son of Heinz Neumann, editor of Rosa Luxemburg's Die Rote Fahne.

Martin Buber raised their daughter Barbara Goldschmidt. Their daughter Judith Agassi (trained at LSE) wrote a book about the prisoners of Ravensbrück.

He influenced Ruth Westheimer and Bella Abzug (Zionist movement HaShomer HaTzair like Menachem Begin and Joel Westheimer,  American Jewish Congress) who founded the National Women's Political Caucus with Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem and pushed the gay agenda with the Equality Act of Ed Koch in 1974. She helped developing the gender policy of the UN world state.

born 2/8/1878.

died 6/13/1965.

Books

1937 I and Thou

1952 Eclipse of God

1967 On Judaism

1968 On the Bible

1973 On Zion

Philosophy

Zionism

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