Paul R. Mendes-Flohr
Paul R. Mendes-Flohr (born 17 April 1941) is a leading scholar of modern Jewish thought. As an intellectual historian, Mendes-Flohr specializes in 19th and 20th-century Jewish thinkers, including Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem and Leo Strauss. Mendes-Flohr holds a doctorate from Brandeis University, which was supervised by Alexander Altmann, Nahum Glatzer, and Ben Halpern. Mendes-Flohr taught at the University of Chicago, where he is Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History and Thought. He is also Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He  is co-author end co-editor, with Jehuda Reinharz, of a book for modern Jewish history, "The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History, and with Arthur A. Cohen," of a book on contemporary Jewish religious thought"." In 2019, Mendes-Flohr published a highly regarded Martin Buber biography entitled, "Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent." His most recent work, "Cultural Disjunctions: Post-Traditional Jewish Identities", is forthcoming.