Language:
German
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Buber, Gandhi, Tagore
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1989) 38-131
Keywords:
Buber, Martin,
;
Gandhi,
;
Jews History 1933-1939
Abstract:
In the context of an analysis of Gandhi's doctrine of non-violent resistance and Buber's Zionism and political thought, discusses Gandhi's article in "Harijan" of 26 November 1938 questioning Jewish rights to Palestine and urging German Jews to remain in Germany and defy the Nazi regime by civil disobedience. In their answers, Buber and Judah Magnes pointed to differences between the situation in India and in Nazi Germany, where martyrdom is useless because there is no one to see it, and all protest is immediately suppressed. Points out that Buber engaged in a different form of resistance by organizing an adult-education program for the Jews in Germany. Examines the problem of Jewish resistance or non-resistance to Nazi persecution in the light of Hannah Arendt's concept of the "conscious pariah". Questions Jewish reliance on the military force of the Allies instead of on their own moral force.
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