Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Annali di Storia dell'Esegesi
Angaben zur Quelle:
18,2 (2001) 559-587
Keywords:
Buber, Martin,
;
Kittel, Gerhard,
;
Gentiles in the Bible
;
Gentiles
;
Church history 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History 1933-1939
Abstract:
Presents a translation of correspondence in 1933 between the Christian theologian Gerhard Kittel and Martin Buber regarding the condition of the Jews in Germany. Buber reacted to Kittel's antisemitic pamphlet about emancipation, civil rights, and Zionism. Kittel considered the assimilation of the Jews as the worst phenomenon happened to the German people. In order to solve the Jewish problem, Kittel proposed to deny civil rights of Jews and a possibile status of legal aliens. The base of the polemic between the two intellectuals is the figure of the foreigner in the Bible. Buber interpreted it as the highest expression of equality, while Kittel saw in the legislation for the rights of the foreigner an example of minority discrimination.
Note:
With an Italian translation of the confrontation.
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