Abraham Joshua Heschel
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This article is about the Polish-born American philosopher. For the Polish Hasidic rabbi, see Avraham Yehoshua Heshel. For the 17th-century chief rabbi of Krakow, see Avraham Yehoshua Heschel.
Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972) 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 civil rights movement.[1][2]
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Born | (1907-01-11)January 11, 1907 |
Died | December 23, 1972(1972-12-23) (aged 65) New York City, New York, U.S. |
Religion | Judaism |
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Sylvia Straus (m. 1946) |
Children | Susannah |
Denomination | Orthodox, Conservative |
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Profession | Theologian, philosopher |
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Profession | Theologian, philosopher |
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