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  1. 1878-1965. Austrian-born Israeli philosopher,
  2. a Zionist and advocate of the reappraisal of
  3. ancient Jewish thought in contemporary terms.
  4. His book I and Thou 1923 posited a direct
  5. dialogue between the individual and God; it
  6. had great impact on Christian and Jewish
  7. theology. When forced by the Nazis to abandon
  8. a professorship in comparative religion at
  9. Frankfurt, he went to Jerusalem and taught
  10. social philosophy at the Hebrew University
  11. 1937-51.
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