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

BUBER, MARTIN.

Oscar Brandstetter, for Schocken-Verlag, Berlin

Leipzig

May, 1937

Galley proof with marginal corrections. With: Correspondence from Buber and from his translator Maurice Friedman concerning this volume (see below).

The original galley proofs of Martin Buber’s Das Kommende, Vol. II. From the library of the late Prof. Steven Schwarzschild (1924-89). This unpublished manuscript took Buber’s English translator Maurice Friedman totally by surprise.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.” Soon after 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).” Raised in Lviv (Lemberg) in the home of his grandfather Solomon Buber, Martin Buber (1878-1965) relocated to Berlin, where he created a school of thought that sought to adapt the teachings of Hassidism to the modern world (neo-Hassidism), eventually leading to his dialogic philosophy made famous in his work Ich und Du (1923). After he founded, together with Franz Rosenzweig, the Juedisches Lehrhaus, he accepted the appointment in Jerusalem of Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University where he remained until his death.