Das Kommende [“He That Comes”]. Volume II.

The original galley proofs of Martin Buber’s Das Kommende, Vol. II discovered by, and from the library of, the late Prof. Steven Schwarzschild. This unpublished manuscript took Buber’s English translator Maurice Friedman totally by surprise. On August 28, 1961, Friedman wrote to Schwarzschild: “I was very much surprised to find that there exists such a thing as galley proofs of the second volume of Das Kommende. Certainly no such second volume has ever appeared in print.” Eventually, Schwarzschild received a note of clarification from Buber himself: “You will find the facts concerning the interruption of the printing in the preface to the volume Königtum Gottes (3rd edition, p. ix).” Martin Buber (1878-1965) was raised in Lemberg in the home of his grandfather Solomon Buber, famous for his numerous critical editions of the Midrashim. Eventually, Martin relocated to Berlin, where he created a school of thought which has come to be known as Neo-Chasidism (an attempt to adapt the original teachings of Chasidism to the modern world), which eventually led to his dialogic philosophy made famous in his work Ich und Du (1937). Starting in 1925, Buber began teaching in Frankfurt a/Main, founding there together with Franz Rosenzweig a unique institution called the Juedisches Lehrhaus. In 1938, Buber was appointed Professor of Philosophy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.