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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: Samuel Brody - A Land of Two Peoples: Martin Buber and Bi-nationalism in Palestine
Description: Professor Samuel Brody, assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "A Land of Two Peoples: Martin Buber and Bi-nationalism in Palestine" before an audience at Beth Emeth Congregation of the West Valley (http://www.bethemethaz.org/) in Sun City West, AZ.
ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Most today remember Martin Buber for his collections of Hasidic tales, as well as his dialogical philosophy of I and Thou. However, Buber was also an active and concerned member of the Zionist movement, famously advocating against the UN partition plan on the grounds that the land...