…I read that and wanted to weep for Jewish people like her, these lost sheep who know nothing of the Jewish religion they spurn. There is no “Jewish ethical tradition” to which Martin Buber and Hannah Arendt ever belonged. There is no chain of transmission characteristic of a tradition for them. Buber looked like a classical Jew but in truth broke from the tradition and became functionally a Gentile philosopher who was no longer particularly Jewish.
And Hannah Arendt was a thoroughly dejudaized woman known for also studying Gentile philosophy and fornicating before the War with Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger and after it bashing Israel for putting Eichmann on trial and then killing him… |