Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972

by Edward K. Kaplan

Book Overview

The first full account of the life of one of America's greatest religious thinkers during World War II and in the decades afterward

Born in Warsaw, raised in a Hasidic community, and reaching maturity in secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) escaped Nazism and immigrated to the United States in 1940. This lively and readable book tells the comprehensive story of his life and work in America,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030015139X
• ISBN13: 9780300151398
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"