Martin Buber was a Jewish scholar and philosopher best known for his existentialist work I and Thou (Ich und Du). He was born in an Orthodox home in Vienna and raised in Lvov, but later returned to Vienna to study modern philosophy. He was a scholar, translator and explicator of Hasidic lore, which he compiled in Tales of the Hasidim. He was an ardent Zionist, settling in Jerusalem in 1938, where he became a professor at the Hebrew University.