Martin Buber (1878 – 1965) was an Austrian-Jewish philosopher, essayist, translator and editor. His work was mainly dedicated to the philosophical dialogic principle, the revival of religious consciousness among the Jews and the Zionist movement. He also wrote tales and legends.
Buber most renowned book is I and Thou: The Dialogic Principle (1923). In 1952, there appeared in English Eclipse of God, in 1983, A land of two peoples: Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs and in 2003, Two types of Faith.
A selection of Buber's works, edited by him in his eighties, comprises more than four thousand pages and is divided into writings on philosophy, the Bible, Hasidism, and Judaism.