Paul R. Mendes-Flohr

Paul R. Mendes-Flohr is a leading scholar of modern Jewish thought. As an intellectual historian, Mendes-Flohr specializes in 19th and 20th Century Jewish thinkers, including Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Gershom Scholem.

Holder of a PhD from Brandeis University, Mendes-Flohr teaches at both the University of Chicago and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He is co-author, with Jehuda Reinharz, of an important textbook for modern Jewish history, "The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History." (1995) [http://books.google.com/books?id=8iohewWTpVUC&pg=PA438&lpg=PA438&dq=the+jew+in+the+modern+world+a+documentary+history&source=web&ots=R4d23gu-D_&sig=igl0ZfnEQBdGcw5R3yM7CW5KlcM#PPA437,M1]

elected works

* "Identität. Die zwei Seelen der deutschen Juden"
* "From mysticism to dialogue: Martin Buber's transformation of German social thought" (1989)
* "Franz Rosenzweig and the Possibility of a Jewish Theology" (forthcoming)
* "German Jews: a dual identity" 1999
* "A land of two peoples: Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs" Edited with commentary and a new preface by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr.
* "Contemporary Jewish religious thought: original essays on critical concepts, movements, and beliefs." Arthur A. Cohen and Paul Mendes-Flohr, editors.
* Divided passions: Jewish intellectuals and the experience of modernity (1991)
* Martin Buber : a contemporary perspective (2002)