Paul R. Mendes-Flohr

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Paul R. Mendes-Flohr in 2018

Paul R. Mendes-Flohr (born 17 April 1941) is a leading scholar of modern Jewish thought. As an intellectual historian, Mendes-Flohr specializes in 19th and 20th-century Jewish thinkers, including Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem and Leo Strauss.^[1]

Mendes-Flohr holds a doctorate from Brandeis University, which was supervised by Alexander Altmann, Nahum Glatzer, and Ben Halpern. Mendes-Flohr taught at the University of Chicago, where he is Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History and Thought. He is also Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He is co-author end co-editor, with Jehuda Reinharz, of a book for modern Jewish history, The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History,^[2] and with Arthur A. Cohen, of a book on contemporary Jewish religious thought.^[3]

In 2019, Mendes-Flohr published a highly regarded^[4][5] Martin Buber biography entitled, Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent. His most recent work, Cultural Disjunctions: Post-Traditional Jewish Identities, is forthcoming.

Selected works[]

• Identität. Die zwei Seelen der deutschen Juden
• Cohen, Arthur A.; Mendes-Flohr, Paul, eds. (2009) [1987]. 20th Century Jewish Religious Thought: Original Essays on Critical Concepts, Movements, and Beliefs. JPS: The Jewish Publication Society. ISBN 978-0-8276-0892-4.
• From Mysticism to Dialogue: Martin Buber's Transformation of German Social Thought. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989.
• Franz Rosenzweig and the Possibility of a Jewish Theology (forthcoming)
• Mendes-Flohr, Paul R.; Reinharz, Jehuda, eds. (1995). The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507453-X. OCLC 30026590.
• German Jews: a dual identity 1999
• A land of two peoples: Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs Edited with commentary and a new preface by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr.
• Divided passions: Jewish intellectuals and the experience of modernity (1991)
• Martin Buber: a contemporary perspective (2002)
• Mendes-Flohr, Paul (2005). "Judaism". In Thomas Riggs (ed.). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices. 1. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale. ISBN 9780787666118.
• Martin Buber: a life of faith and dissent (2019)

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