biography
| name: |
Heschel, Abraham Joshua
|
pronunciation:
[heshel]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1907–72)
|
| biography:
| Educator and writer, born in Warsaw, Poland. He studied and taught Jewish theology in Germany until 1938, when he was deported to Warsaw. He went to the USA in 1941, and became professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1946–72). A spokesman on issues of social injustice, he wrote many scholarly and popular books including Unknown Documents on the History of Hasidism (1952) and The Problem of the Individual (1958). |
|
|
