Paul Mendes-Flohr

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Paul Mendes-Flohr (2017)

Paul Mendes-Flohr (born Paul Flohr on April 17, 1941 in New York City ) is an American historian. His research focus is modern Jewish intellectual history.

Life

Paul Flohr's father comes from Galicia, his mother from Russia. You ran a newspaper kiosk in Brooklyn in a Yiddish-speaking environment. He attended Brooklyn College and then studied at Brandeis University . In 1966 he studied for a semester with Jacob Katz in Jerusalem. In 1969/70 he carried out research in Berlin and received teaching assignments on Zionism and Hasidism from Jacob Taubes at the Free University of Berlin . In 1970 he married Rita Mendes and took the double name. In Brandeis he received his doctorate in 1972 under Alexander Altmann , Nahum Glatzer and Ben Halpern with a thesis on Martin Buber's relationship to sociology.

Mendes-Flohr moved to Israel and taught Jewish thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . From 1999 to 2006 he was director of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History. In 1998 he was awarded a Humboldt Research Prize in Germany . He received the Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought Professorship at the University of Chicago .

In 2012 Mendes-Flohr was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Together with Peter Schäfer and later Bernd Witte, Mendes-Flohr was the editor of the Martin Buber Werkausgabe (MBW), which appeared in 22 volumes from 2001.

Fonts (selection)

  • From mysticism to dialogue: Martin Buber's spiritual development up to “I and you” . Translation from English by Dafna A. von Kries. Introduction by Ernst Simon . Jüdischer Verlag, Königstein 1979, ISBN 3-7610-8038-7 .
  • From mysticism to dialogue: Martin Buber's transformation of German social thought. Wayne State Univ. Press, Detroit 1989.
  • with Jehuda Reinharz (Ed.): The Jew in the modern world: A documentary history. Oxford Univ. Press, New York 1980, ISBN 0-19-502631-4 .
  • with Arthur A. Cohen (Ed.): Contemporary Jewish religious thought: original essays on critical concepts, movements, and beliefs. Scribner, New York 1987.
  • with Otto Dov Kulka (Ed.): Judaism and Christianity under the Impact of National Socialism . Jerusalem 1987.
  • (Ed.): A land of two peoples: Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs. Preface by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr. Schocken, Tel-Aviv 1988.
    • (Ed.): Martin Buber: One country and two peoples: on the Jewish-Arab question. Jewish publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • Divided passions: Jewish intellectuals and the experience of modernity. Essays. Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1991.
  • German Jews: a dual identity. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven 1999, ISBN 0-300-07623-1 .
    • Jewish identity - the two souls of the German Jews. Translation of Dorthe Seifert. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7705-4007-7 .
  • Martin Buber: a contemporary perspective. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 2002.
  • with Steven M. Lowenstein, Peter Pulzer and Monika Richarz : German-Jewish history in modern times. Volume III: Controversial Integration 1871–1918. Translation by Holger Fliessbach. CH Beck, 1997, ISBN 3-406-39705-0 .
  • with Steven M. Lowenstein and Avraham Barkai : German-Jewish history in modern times. Volume IV: Construction and Destruction 1918–1945. Translation by Holger Fliessbach. CH Beck, 1997, ISBN 3-406-39705-0 .
  • Cultural Zionism. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 3: He-Lu. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02503-6 , pp. 454–458 (about Achad Ha'am ).

literature

  • Julia Matveev, Ashraf Noor (ed.): The Presence of German-Jewish Thought: Festschrift for Paul Mendes-Flohr. Fink, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-7705-4634-3 .
  • Martina Urban, Christian Wiese (Ed.): German-Jewish Thought Between Religion and Politics: Festschrift in Honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. In: Studia Judaica. 60, 2012.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vita by the editor in the Festschrift German-Jewish Thought , 2012, pp. 1–10.
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved May 31, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Mendes-Flohr, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flohr, Paul (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City