MAGNES, Judah, & Martin Buber.

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Arab-Jewish Unity. First edition, in the jacket, of this early Ihud manifesto, presenting statements made by the two of its leading figures on the future of the Palestine mandate. The Anglo-American Inquiry Commission convened in early January and reported several months later. Magnes and Buber ardently believed that "a bi-national Palestine could become a beacon of peace in the world" (p. 42).Together with several other intellectuals, the authors formed the Ihud party in 1942. "Ihud constituted the first instance in the history of Israel's politics of what happens when intellectuals seek to propose a compromise solution in the course of a violent national conflict" (Sofer).Loosely inserted is a typed letter signed, dated 3 March 1958, from Maurice Friedman, chairman of the American Friends of Ichud, to Rev. John Papandrew (1921-2003), a Unitarian minister and civil rights activist who later marched with Martin Luther King. Friedman writes concerning arrangements for a celebration to mark Buber's 80th birthday and the 10th anniversary of Magnes's death, which was due to be held at Papandrew's church in New York.

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