Paul R. Mendes-Flohr

Professor of Modern Jewish Thought, University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, Illinois. Internationally recognized authority on modern Jewish thought and history. Author of From Mysticism to Dialogue: Martin Buber's Transformation of German Social Thought (1989), and co-editor, with Berd Witte, of the twenty-two-volume edition of Martin Buber's Werke. Edited The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig (1988) and wrote Progress and its Discontents (Hebrew, 2010). Authored books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jewish identity, including Divided Passions: Jewish Intellectuals and the Experience of Modernity (1991), German Jews: A Dual Identity (1999), and Post-Traditional Jewish Identities (forthcoming). Editor of The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History (with Jehuda Reinharz; 3rd ed., 2011). Combined experience working for peace between Arabs and Jews in Israel with scholarly expertise in A Land of Two Peoples: Martin Buber and the Arabs (2005). Was active in interreligious dialogue with Tibetan Buddhism and other religions in diaspora. Received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Prize (1997).