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258 <strong>American</strong> Jezuish <strong>Archives</strong><br />
aside from the occasional lapse in prepositional form (e.g.," Buber<br />
was very active for the Zionist cause"[g3]) that should have been<br />
caught by the editor. Buber's notion of rabbinic Judaism as "castrat-<br />
ing" and himself as the guide, through Hasidism, into an autonomous<br />
Judaism (112) in which true peoplehood will be found places a<br />
sober intellectual limit on the fruitfulness of some of his later for-<br />
mulations.<br />
Professor Schmidt has considerably enhanced Buber scholarship<br />
as well as our understanding of German Jewry at this time. I am grate-<br />
ful for her contribution.<br />
-Rochelle Millen<br />
Rochelle Millen is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion, Wittenberg<br />
University.
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