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Who was Paula Winckler, Martin Buber's wife?
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Martin Buber.
Paula Winckler was a non-Jewish, pro-Zionist author who married Martin Buber in 1901. Following their marriage, she converted to Judaism. Her partnership with Buber coincided with his deepening interest in the study of Hasidism, a 18th-century eastern European Jewish pietistic movement that became a significant focus of his philosophical work.1