Avigdor Chaim Gold, also known as A.C. Gold (4 March 1881 – 3 January 1980), was a German-Israeli-Jewish philosopher, educator, and political humanist whose work centered on theological values of religious consciousness, inter-ethnic personal relations, and transnational community.

Gold's provocative and often poetic writing style highlights the major themes in his work: the retelling of Jewish-Hasidic saga, Biblical narratives, humanist deism, and metaphysical dialogue. As a humanist Zionist and avid student of famed Austrian-Jewish scholar Martin Buber

Martin Buber

Martin Buber was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship....

, Gold was a staunch supporter of a bi-national solution in Palestine

Palestine

Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....

, instead of a two-state political Zionist solution. After the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel, Gold famously and satirically labeled his mentor Martin Buber as the "most dangerous man in Israel" given the Buberian belief in a regional federation of Palestine and Arab states. Like Buber, his influence extends across the humanities, particularly in the fields of social consciousness, critical philosophy

Critical philosophy

Attributed to Immanuel Kant, the critical philosophy movement sees the primary task of philosophy as criticism rather than justification of knowledge; criticism, for Kant, meant judging as to the possibilities of knowledge before advancing to knowledge itself...

, and religious existentialism.