Publication of Prof. Paul Mendes-Flohr’s book: “Orientalism and mysticism”

Vision

The vision of this project is to explore the complex relationship between Jewish identity, spirituality, and the intellectual and cultural currents of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Supporting the publication of Prof. Paul Mendes-Flohr’s groundbreaking work “Orientalism and Mysticism,” aims to promote a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the enduring significance of spirituality and identity in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world. The project’s main objective is to contribute to the preservation and promotion of Jewish cultural heritage while stimulating meaningful dialogue and collaboration across diSerent communities.

Activity

Blima Books, the publishing house responsible for the publication of “Orientalism and Mysticism,” is dedicated to producing high-quality works that contribute to the understanding and appreciation of Jewish thought, culture, and history. Through the publication of this book, Blima Books aims to further its mission of promoting intellectual inquiry and fostering a greater understanding of the Jewish experience.

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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

- Martin Buber

Paul Mendes-Flohr

Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History and Thought; Associate
Faculty in the Department of History
PhD (Brandeis University)

Paul Mendes-Flohr’s major research interests include modern Jewish intellectual history,
modern Jewish philosophy and religious thought, philosophy of religion, German intellectual
history, and the history and sociology of intellectuals. Together with Bernd Witte, he serves as
editor-in-chief of the twenty-two volume German edition of the collected works of Martin Buber,
sponsored by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Israel Academy
of Sciences and Humanities, and the Heinrich Heine Universität, Dusseldorf, Germany. He has
recently published Progress and its Discontents (in Hebrew); the third, englarged edition of The
Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History (with Jehuda Reinharz); and Encrucijadas en
la Modernidad (Buenos Aries). He is the editor of a series on German-Jewish literature and
Cultural History for the University of Chicago Press, as well as the collected works of Martin
Buber in German, which has published two volumes in the past year. His biography of Martin
Buber is soon to be published by Yale University Press. He has recently published several
edited volumes: Gustav Landauer. Anarchist and Jew (Munich: Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 2014);
Dialogue as a Trans-Disciplinary Concept (Berlin; Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 2015); and, in
Hebrew (with Avihu Zakai), Fields in the Wind: A Tribute to Avraham Shapira in Friendship and
Appreciation (Jerusalem: Carmel Publishers, 2015) as well as (with San Berinn Sohnkoff,
Special Centenary Buber issue, Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 2017; (with Michael
A. Fishbane) Martin Buber: Symposium. Journal of Religion (in press); (also with Michael A.
Fishbane), Martin Buber Werkausgabe, vol. 20: Schriften zum Judentum (Güterslohr, 2018) and
(with Rachel Freudenthal) Wissenschaft des Judentum. History and New Horizons (Berlin:
Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 2017.
Prof. Mendes-Flohr has written some thirty books, edited another forty-five, and authored some
300 articles. In addition, in 2019, after twenty years’ work—with Peter Schaefer (until 2010) and
Bernard Vitta (subsequently)—he completed a critical edition of the collected works of Martin
Buber (21 volumes containing 26 books, in German). This edition, Martin Buber Werkausgabe,
was under the auspices of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (of which Buber was
the founding president), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the
Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.