"Yavne and Jerusalem"

A member of the Prague circle of German Jewish intellectuals before World War I, Samuel Hugo Bergmann was strongly influenced by Martin Buber’s spiritual Zionism and neoromantic religious philosophy. He settled in Jerusalem in 1920, where he served first as director of the National and University Library and later as professor of philosophy and rector at the Hebrew University. In 1925 he founded, together with Buber, Brit Shalom, a group that advocated the creation of a binational state in the Land of Israel.