Abraham Joshua Heschel

Author : Julian E. Zelizer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300262353

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Abraham Joshua Heschel by Julian E. Zelizer Pdf

A biography of the rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who became a symbol of the marriage between religion and social justice “When I marched in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.” So said Polish-born American rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) of his involvement in the 1965 Selma civil rights march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. Heschel, who spoke with a fiery moralistic fervor, dedicated his career to the struggle to improve the human condition through faith. In this new biography, author Julian Zelizer tracks Heschel’s early years and foundational influences—his childhood in Warsaw and early education in Hasidism, his studies in late 1920s and early 1930s Berlin, and the fortuitous opportunity, which brought him to the United States and saved him from the Holocaust, to teach at Hebrew Union College and the Jewish Theological Seminary. This deep and complex portrait places Heschel at the crucial intersection between religion and progressive politics in mid-twentieth-century America. To this day Heschel remains a symbol of the fight to make progressive Jewish values relevant in the secular world.

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466800106

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Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

This first collection of Heschel's essays - compiled, edited and with an introduction by his daughter Susannah Heschel, is a stunning reminder of the virtuosity of one of the most well respected minds in Judaic studies.

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466800090

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The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication--and has been read by thousands of people seeking meaning in modern life. In this brief yet profound meditation on the meaning of the Seventh Day, Heschel, one of the most widely respected religious leaders of the twentieth century, introduced the influential idea of an 'architecture of holiness" that appears not in space but in time. Judaism, he argues, is a religion of time: it finds meaning not in space and the materials things that fill it but in time and the eternity that imbues it, so that 'the Sabbaths are our greatcatherdrals.'

Author : Shai Held
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253011305

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Abraham Joshua Heschel by Shai Held Pdf

“Through Heschel, Held’s work reaches out more broadly to treat us to a profound discussion of the great issues in contemporary Jewish theology” (Arthur Green, Hebrew College Rabbinical School). Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) was a prolific scholar, impassioned theologian, and prominent activist who participated in the black civil rights movement and the campaign against the Vietnam War. He has been hailed as a hero, honored as a visionary, and endlessly quoted as a devotional writer. In this sympathetic, yet critical, examination, Shai Held elicits the overarching themes and unity of Heschel’s incisive and insightful thought. Focusing on the idea of transcendence—or the movement from self-centeredness to God-centeredness—Held puts Heschel into dialogue with contemporary Jewish thinkers, Christian theologians, devotional writers, and philosophers of religion. “Shai Held’s book is a master class in one of the most significant Jewish voices of our time.” —Tablet “In this lucid and elegant study, one of the keenest minds in Jewish theology in our time probes the vision of one of the most profound spiritual writers of the twentieth century, uncovering a unity that others have missed and shedding light not only on Heschel but also on the characteristically modern habits of mind that impede the knowledge of God. The book is especially valuable for the connections it draws with other philosophers, theologians, and spiritual writers, Jewish and Christian. Enthusiastically recommended!” —Jon D. Levenson, Harvard University “[A] thoughtful, illuminating new study of Heschel’s thought . . . It is one of the many virtues of Shai Held’s book that it helps us to place Heschel alongside not only Kaplan but Halevi, Horovitz, and Rav Nahman―as well as the Psalmist.” —Jewish Review of Books

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel,Susannah Heschel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1570759197

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Abraham Joshua Heschel by Abraham Joshua Heschel,Susannah Heschel Pdf

Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the great religious teachers and moral prophets of our time. This title provides selections from the writings of the leading Jewish theologian and philosopher, edited by his daughter.

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466800335

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A Passion for Truth by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

In A Passion For Truth, Heschel delves into the exploration of hope and despair in Hasidism. Heschel drew on his own experiences from his study of the Kotzker and the Baal Shem Tov to create this classic work.

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804702667

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Who Is Man? by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

One of the world’s most illustrious and influential theologians here confronts one of the crucial philosophical and religious questions of our time: the nature and role of man. In these three lectures, originally delivered in somewhat different form as The Raymond Fred West Memorial Lectures at Stanford University in May 1963, Dr. Heschel inquires into the logic of being human: What is meant by being human? What are the grounds on which to justify a human being’s claim to being human? In the author’s words, “We have never been as openmouthed and inquisitive, never as astonished and embarrassed at our ignorance about man. We know what he makes, but we do not konw wha he is or what to expect of him. Is it not conceivable that our entire civilization is built upon a minsinterpretation of man? Or that the tragedy of man is due to the fact that he is a being who has forgotten the question: Who is Man? The failure to identify himself, to know what is authentic human existence, leads him to assume a false identity, to pretending to be what he is unable to be or to not accepting what is at the very root of his being. Ignorance about man is not lack of knowledge, but false knowledge.”

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Bible
ISBN : PSU:000045460739

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The Prophets by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

Author : Edward K. Kaplan,Samuel H. Dresner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300124643

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Abraham Joshua Heschel by Edward K. Kaplan,Samuel H. Dresner Pdf

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Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1976-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781429967624

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God in Search of Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the most revered religious leaders of the 20th century, and God in Search of Man and its companion volume, Man Is Not Alone, two of his most important books, are classics of modern Jewish theology. God in Search of Man combines scholarship with lucidity, reverence, and compassion as Dr. Heschel discusses not man's search for God but God's for man--the notion of a Chosen People, an idea which, he writes, "signifies not a quality inherent in the people but a relationship between the people and God." It is an extraordinary description of the nature of Biblical thought, and how that thought becomes faith.

Author : Michael Marmur
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442651234

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Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Sources of Wonder by Michael Marmur Pdf

Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Sources of Wonder is the first book to demonstrate how Heschel's political, intellectual, and spiritual commitments were embedded in his reading of Jewish tradition.

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X001271033

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I Asked for Wonder by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

The excerpts in this book have been grouped around the major themes of Heschel's spiritual vision, God, Prayer, Sabbath, Religion, and so on.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Judaism
ISBN : 143950380X

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Man Is Not Alone by Anonim Pdf

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826418937

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The Ineffable Name of God - Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

Written between 1927 and 1933—and never published in English before—this is the intimate spiritual diary of a devout European Jew, loyal to the revelation at Sinai and afflicted with reverence for all human beings.

Author : Edward K. Kaplan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300137699

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Spiritual Radical by Edward K. Kaplan Pdf

This ambitious book explores the relationship between time and history and shows how an appreciation of long-term time helps to make sense of the past. For the historian, time is not an unproblematic given but, as for the physicist or the philosopher, a means to understanding the changing patterns of life on earth. The book is devoted to a wide-ranging analysis of the way different societies have conceived and interpreted time, and it develops a theory of threefold roles of continuity, gradual change, and revolution that together form a 'braided' history. Linking the interpretative chapters are intriguing brief expositions on time travel, time cycles, time lines and time pieces, showing readers the different ways in which human history has been located in time. In its global approach the book is part of the new shift towards 'big history', in which traditional period divisions are challenged in favour of looking again at the entire past of the world from start to end. The approach is thematic. The result is a view of world history in which outcomes are shown to be explicable, once they happen, but not necessarily predictable before they do. This book will inform the work of historians of all periods and at all levels, and contributes to the current reconsideration of traditional period divisions (such as Modernity and Postmodernity), which the author finds outmoded.