By Edward K. Kaplan
ISBN-10: 0300115407
ISBN-13: 9780300115406
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ISBN-13: 9780300137699
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Born in Warsaw, raised in a Hasidic group, and attaining adulthood in secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) escaped Nazism and immigrated to the U.S. in 1940. This energetic and readable ebook tells the great tale of his existence and paintings in the USA, his politics and character, and the way he got here to steer not just Jewish debate but in addition wider non secular and cultural debates within the postwar many years. A useful sequel to his widely-praised biography of Heschel's early years, Edward Kaplan's new quantity attracts on formerly unseen information, FBI records, interviews with those that knew Heschel, and analyses of his huge writings. Kaplan explores Heschel's shy and personal part, his non secular radicalism, and his vehement defence of the Hebrew prophets' perfect of absolute integrity and fact in moral and political lifestyles. Of precise curiosity are Heschel's interfaith actions, together with a mystery assembly with Pope Paul VI in the course of Vatican II, his dedication to civil rights with Martin Luther King, Jr., his perspectives at the nation of Israel, and his competition to the Vietnam warfare. A tireless challenger to non secular and spiritual complacency, Heschel stands as a dramatically vital witness.
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Heschel, “An Analysis of Piety” (1942) HESCHEL’S FIRST COMPLETE ACADEMIC YEAR AT HEBREW UNION COLLEGE began on 19 October 1940, following the High Holy Days, a month after his rejoinder to Einstein appeared in Aufbau. As in his previous year, he held the lowest position open to the refugee scholars, who were not official members of the faculty: fellow in Jewish philosophy (his prize-winning colleague Franz Rosenthal was fellow in the Bible and Semitic languages). Similarly, Heschel’s teaching was limited for the most part to basic courses.
22 Confronting Albert Einstein At the end of his first term at HUC, Heschel began what would become his routine of spending the long summer recess from June through September in New York City. This time, rather than lodge with his sister’s family in lower Manhattan, he rented a room at 362 Riverside Drive, apt. 10B, on the Upper West Side near the Jewish Theological Seminary and Columbia University. Heschel did research in the schools’ libraries, met with faculty members, and furthered contacts with other immigrant groups.
10B, on the Upper West Side near the Jewish Theological Seminary and Columbia University. Heschel did research in the schools’ libraries, met with faculty members, and furthered contacts with other immigrant groups. He also arranged to see his good friend Eduard Strauss, who was having difficulty adjusting to American life. The nearly five months Heschel spent in New York that summer opened important opportunities as he embarked on his new life. FIRST YEAR IN AMERICA 15 At YIVO, the secularist research institute familiar to him from Warsaw and Vilna, Heschel recovered a Yiddish-speaking community.
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