1955, The Legend of the Baal-Shem by Martin Buber, HB Harper & Bros, 1st, VG

Description: First Edition, published by Harper & Brothers in 1955. The book is in VERY GOOD CONDITION. Gray boards with black spine tape and white titling, clear without rubbing. Little to no board edge and corner wear. A previous owner inked name on first free endpaper, else no marks in 222 clean and solidly bound pages. On the book from an online listing: "The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber spoke directly to the most profound human concerns in all his works, including his discussions of Hasidism, a mystical-religious movement founded in Eastern Europe by Israel ben Eliezer, called the Baal-Shem (the Master of God’s Name). Living in the first part of the eighteenth century in Podolia and Wolhynia, the Baal-Shem braved scorn and rejection from the rabbinical establishment and attracted followers from among the common people, the poor, and the mystically inclined. Here Buber offers a sensitive and intuitive account of Hasidism, followed by twenty stories about the life of the Baal-Shem. This book is the earliest and one of the most delightful of Buber’s seven volumes on Hasidism and can be read not only as a collection of myth but as a key to understanding the central theme of Buber’s thought: the I-Thou, or dialogical, relationship." B143

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