Abraham Joshua Heschel

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
Heschel in 1964
Personal
Born(1907-01-11)January 11, 1907
Warsaw, Congress Poland
DiedDecember 23, 1972(1972-12-23) (aged 65)
New York, New York, U.S.
ReligionJudaism
Spouse
Sylvia Straus
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(m. 1946)​
ChildrenSusannah
DenominationOrthodox, Conservative
Alma mater
ProfessionTheologian, philosopher
Jewish leader
ProfessionTheologian, philosopher

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]

  1. ^ "The Legacy of Abraham Joshua Heschel." Tikkun. Accessed May 25, 2014.
  2. ^ "A Rabbi of His Time, With a Charisma That Transcends It." The New York Times. Accessed May 25, 2014.