Paul R. Mendes-Flohr

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.

Holder of a PhD from Brandeis University, Mendes-Flohr teaches at the University of Chicago. He used to teach at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He is co-author, with Jehuda Reinharz, of a book for modern Jewish history, The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History.^[1]

Selected works

• Identität. Die zwei Seelen der deutschen Juden
• From mysticism to dialogue: Martin Buber's transformation of German social thought (1989)
• Franz Rosenzweig and the Possibility of a Jewish Theology (forthcoming)
• 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.
• Contemporary Jewish religious thought: original essays on critical concepts, movements, and beliefs. Arthur A. Cohen and Paul Mendes-Flohr, editors.
• Divided passions: Jewish intellectuals and the experience of modernity (1991)
• Martin Buber: a contemporary perspective (2002)

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