Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1960 — Page 17

Friday, April 22, 1960

Tbe National Jewish POST and OPINION

B O O K S

JUDAISM DEMANDS THAT INWARD TRUTH MUST BECOME

REAL LIFE IF IT IS TO REMAIN TRUTH: BUBER

Burstein

the origin and meaning OF HASIDISM, by Martin Bu-

ber, $4.50 (Horizon).

The ultimate work of the great octogenarian theologian and protagonist of Hasidism has been edited and translated by Prof. Maurice Friedman, chief exponent of Buber’s writings in Amer-

ica., Buber is a c o m p 1 i cated character—one who maintains a strong rapport with Jesus, while opposing his Pauline perverters. He is devoted to the ways and pi'inciples

of Hasidism, without living the kind of life we expect from a

"hasid.”

The present definitive collection contrasts the movement with Freud, Spinoza, Christian and oriental mystics, with some similarities noted in Zen Buddhism. He thus places Hasidism within the area of all world religions. He sees in it more than the religion of the amhaaretz; it is "the hallowing of everything worldly”; in it devotion “has absorbed and overcome gnosis”— meaning knowledge of spiritual mysteries. Friedman sums up the subject: "Judaism does not neglect spiritual inwardness . . . It demands that inward truth become real life if it is to remain truth.” An excellent book on both Buber and his major inter-

est.

MARTIN BUBER: JEWISH EXISTENTIALIST, b y Malcolm L. Diamond, $4.50 (Oxford University Press). The word "existentialist” should not alarm the reader. "Buber . . . uses existentialist language to call attention to dimensions of existence that we often experience but fail to notice.” His biblical studies were largely directed "against the distortions, oversimplifications, and misunderstandings introduced into higher criticism by the Wellhuasen picture.” Further enlightening phrases: "We Jews are a community based on memory ... a generation can only receive the teachings in the sense that it renews them.” Hasidism, says Prof. Diamond, emphasized "the unity of teaching and virtue,” Buber’s teachings, he declares, are affecting orthodox as well as liberal Jewish thinkers. Above all, Buber described his own efforts as based on "work, love, faith, and humor.” Diamond finds his contributions to both Judaism and Christianity invaluable, as well

as his espousal of Zionism and all Jewsih mysticism. A good study, in which Prof. Maurice Friedman has aided. ANCIENT SEMITIC CIVILIZATIONS, by Sabatino Moscati, $1.65 (CAP Giant, G. P. Put-

nam’s Sons).

Now in an inexpensive paperback the scholarly depiction of "the bridge between the East and the West” by Prof. Moscati of Rome will attain its merited wider acceptance. The writer has gone back to origins anthropological, cultural, linguistic, theological, literary; to the Babylonians, Assyrians, Hebrews, Aramaeans, Arabs, and Ethiopians —to end with an epilogue evaluating the tremendous impact of Semitic life and culture on all future civilizations. Despite his belief that Semitic religion was "carried to completion” by Christianity, his critical study of Judaism does not suffer. He is entirely correct in seeing Judaic survival ensured not by political power alone but by the Hebrew religion. He finds the sources "more archaic” than even Wellhausen assumed. He acknowledges that notwithstanding resemblances with other codes, Hebrew law had “its own independent development.” An informative and valuable study. THE BIBLICAL ZOO, by Susan Nevil, $3.75 (David McKay Co.) It was the idea of Prof. Aaron Shulov of the Hebrew University, in 1940, that culminated in completion of a zoo in Jerusalem containing all the animals mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Now, with Michael and Deborah, twins, Mrs. Nevil of Jerusa-

lem (and author of "The Picture Story of the Middle East”) travels through the zoo and back into the biblical past. With the author’s * splendid illustrations,

her apt citations from the Bible text, and her own fascinating text, this book merits all praise and extensive dissemination among children everywhere.

Quite possibly the juvenile book of the year. OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND SAY OY, by Henry Leonard, $1.00 (Crown). These delicious cartoons of life in the Jewish community and the synagogue have been seen by many thousands in American Jewish weeklies. ABRAHAM BURSTEIN

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