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Biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Name: Abraham Joshua Heschel
Birth Date: 1907
Death Date: December 23, 1972
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: theologian, educator, philosopher
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a Polish-born American theologian, educator, and philosopher who sought to build a modern philosophy of religion on the basis of ancient Jewish tradition. Among other posts, he held the chair of professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York City.With his birth in Warsaw, Poland, in 1907, Abraham Joshua Heschel entered a family that counted back seven generations of Hasidic rabbis. His father was Rabbi Moshe Mordecai, and his ancestors helped to found the Polish Hasidic movement, a Jewish sect of mystics, in the eighteenth century. Both his father and his mother, Reisel Perlow Heschel, instilled in him a love of learning as he grew up in the orthodox ghetto of Warsaw. As a young man, he wrote poetry, and his collection of Yiddish verse was published years later (1933) in his home city.Student and Teacher YearsFollowing a traditional …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…to form a relationship--a "leap of action" rather than of faith--with God.In addition to his scholarly and philosophical writings, Heschel authored several works on Jewish life in eastern Europe. Chief among them is The Earth Is the Lord's: The Inner World of the Jew in East Europe (1950), in which he theorizes that the "golden age" of European Jewish life was in the Jewish culture of eastern Europe. In the 1960s Heschel was active in the movement to aid the Jews of the Soviet Union. Further Reading An excellent introduction to Heschel's thought is in Between God and Man: An Interpretation of Judaism, from the Writings of Abraham J. Heschel, selected, edited, and introduced by Fritz A. Rothschild (1959). For a more scholarly biography, see Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness, written by Edward K. Kaplan and Samuel H. Dresner (1998). See also: Who's Who in America,New York Times, Dec. 24, 1972.
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