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Abraham Joshua Heschel - Mind, Heart, Soul (Abridged, Hardcover, Abridged, A One-Volume Biography)
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Abraham Joshua Heschel - Mind, Heart, Soul (Abridged, Hardcover, Abridged, A One-Volume Biography)
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In this first one-volume English-language full biography of Abraham
Joshua Heschel, Edward K. Kaplan tells the engrossing,
behind-the-scenes story of the life, philosophy, struggles,
yearnings, writings, and activism of one of the twentieth century's
most outstanding Jewish thinkers. Kaplan takes readers on a soulful
journey through the rollercoaster challenges and successes of
Heschel's emotional life. As a child he was enveloped in a Hasidic
community of Warsaw, then he went on to explore secular Jewish
Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin. He improvised solutions to procure
his doctorate in Nazi-dominated Berlin, escaped the Nazis, and
secured a rare visa to the United States. He articulated strikingly
original interpretations of Jewish ideas. His relationships spanned
not only the Jewish denominational spectrum but also Catholic and
Protestant faith communities. A militant voice for nonviolent
social action, he marched with Martin Luther King Jr. (who became a
close friend), expressed strong opposition to the Vietnam War
(while the FBI compiled a file on him), and helped reverse
long-standing antisemitic Catholic Church doctrine on Jews
(participating in a secret meeting with Pope Paul VI during Vatican
II). From such prodigiously documented stories Heschel himself
emerges-mind, heart, and soul. Kaplan elucidates how Heschel
remained forever torn between faith and anguish; between love of
God and abhorrence of human apathy, moral weakness, and deliberate
evil; between the compassion of the Baal Shem Tov of Medzibozh and
the Kotzker rebbe's cruel demands for truth. "My heart," Heschel
acknowledged, is "in Medzibozh, my mind in Kotzk."
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