Judith Buber Agassi (17 June 1924 – 15 July 2018) was a German-born Israeli sociologist, who wrote about

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and the experience of those imprisoned in

Ravensbrück concentration camp Ravensbrück () was a German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel). The camp memorial's estimated figure o ...

. She also edited the work of her mother

Margarete Buber-Neumann Margarete Buber-Neumann (21 October 1901 – 6 November 1989) was a German writer. As a communist, she wrote the memoir ''Under Two Dictators'' about her imprisonment within a Soviet prison, and later a Nazi concentration camp during World War I ...

and her grandfather

Martin Buber Martin Buber ( he, מרטין בובר; german: Martin Buber; yi, מארטין בובער; February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian Jewish and Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism ...

Life

Judith Buber was born in

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on 17 June 1924, at the house of her grandparents, Paula and

. Her parents, Rafael Buber and his first wife,

Margarete Margarete is a German feminine given name. It is derived from Ancient Greek ''margarites'' (μαργαρίτης), meaning "the pearl". Via the Latin ''margarita'', it arrived in the German sprachraum. Related names in English include Daisy, Gr ...

, lived there for a year, along with Judith's older sister Barbara. After the couple divorced, Rafael was awarded custody and the girls were raised at their grandparents' home in Heppenheim. She migrated to

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

in March 1938. She was educated at Beth Hakerem High School and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduating in 1951 with an MA in History. In 1949 she married the philosopher

Joseph Agassi Joseph Agassi (; he, יוסף אגסי; born May 7, 1927 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli academic with contributions in logic, scientific method, and philosophy. He studied under Karl Popper and taught at the London School of Economics. Agassi ta ...

. She earned her doctorate at the

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in 1960, with a thesis on

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and

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.Judith Buber Agassi, ''The Role of Local Government in the Working of Parliamentary Democracy: A Comparative Study of the British, Belgian and Dutch Systems'', PhD, 1960.

spent four years as a political prisoner in

. Judith Buber Agassi spent years interviewing women who had survived the camp, and recovered the identities of over 16,000 prisoners.

Works

* ''Mass media in Indonesia'', 1969 * ''The characteristics of typical women's jobs and the attitudes of women to those jobs: a comparative multinational study'', 1978 * ''Women on the job: the attitudes of women to their work'', 1979 * ''Comparing the work attitudes of women and men'', 1982 * ''The Redesign of working time: promise or threat?'', 1989 * (ed.) ''Plädoyer für Freiheit und Menschlichkeit: Vorträge aus 35 Jahren'' by

, 1999 * (ed.) ''Martin Buber on psychology and psychotherapy: essays, letters, and dialogue'' by

, 1999 * ''The Jewish women prisoners of Ravensbrück: who were they?'', 2006 * (ed.) ''Schriften zur Psychologie und Psychotherapie'' by Martin Buber, 2008 * ''The Jewish women prisoners of Ravensbruck: who were they?'', 2012

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Agassi, Judith Buber 1924 births 2018 deaths Israeli sociologists Israeli women sociologists Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine People from Bergstraße (district)