About Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Polish-American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of widely read books on Jewish philosophy and was a leader in the U.S. civil rights movement. Their daughter, Susannah Heschel, became a Jewish scholar in her own right. Heschel became friendly with his colleague Mordecai Kaplan.
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