Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel | |
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Heschel in 1964 | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | January 11, 1907 |
| Died | December 23, 1972 (aged 65) New York, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse |
Sylvia Straus (m. 1946) |
| Children | Susannah |
| Alma mater | |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Denomination | Orthodox, Conservative |
| Profession | Rabbi, theologian, 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 U.S. civil rights movement.