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Editor: Susannah Heschel has compiled, edited, and written a biographical introduction to this first collection of the essays of her father, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-72), a noted scholar and theologian but also an activist in civil rights and antiwar causes. Although best known until now for such influential books as Man Is Not Alone, God in Search of Man, and Man’s Quest for God, all written in the 1950s, Heschel also wrote theological essays and popular articles on social and political issues. In clear but dense prose, the theological essays celebrate the religious culture of pre-World War II Eastern European Jews, stressing the spiritual and mystical dimensions.
Recommended for academic libraries with Judaica and theology collections.
Harry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., New York
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907^-72),
- one of the foremost Jewish savants of our time, was internationally known as scholar, author, activist, and theologian.
- a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in the 1940s and 1950s,
- fled eastern Europe in 1939, leaving the Hasidic Jewish world in which he was raised–a world soon to be destroyed in the Holocaust.
- His most important books were masterpieces of religious thought:
- Man Is Not Alone (1951),
- The Sabbath(1951),
- God in Search of Man (1952),
- and Man’s Quest for God (1954),
- This collection of Heschel’s essays has been compiled, edited, and introduced by his daughter, Susannah Heschel, a Case Western Reserve University professor.
- She has divided the essays into five groups:
- “Existence and Celebration,”
- “No Time for Neutrality,”
- “Toward a Just Society,”
- “No Religion Is an Island,”
- and “The Holy Dimension.”
The essays cover all aspects of Judaism; words of compassion and mercy from the most widely revered American rabbi and spiritual teacher of his generation. An appendix includes two interviews with Heschel. George Cohen –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
“One of the truly great men of our day and age, a truly great prophet.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”This essential collection captures the best of a leading thinker and doer who influenced many contemporaries with an ancient prophetic tradition that he made new.”–Kirkus Reviews
CONTENTS
I. Existence and Celebration
To be a Jew: What Is It?
The Moment at Sinai
Existence and Celebration
Hasidism as a New Approach to Torah
Israel as Memory
We Cannot Force People to Believe
A Time for Renewal
Pikuach Neshama: To Save a Soul
The Meaning of Repentance
On the Day of Hate
II. No Time For Neutrality
No Time for Neutrality
Symbolism and Jewish Faith
The Spirit of Jewish Prayer
Toward an Understanding of Halacha
Yom Kippur
Teaching Religion to American Jews
Jewish Theology
The Mystical Element in Judaism
A Preface to an Understanding of Revelation
God, Torah, and Israel
III. Toward a Just Society
The Meaning of This War (World War II)
The Plight of Russian Jews
The Moral Dilemma of the Space Age
Required: A Moral Ombudsman
The Reasons for My Involvement in the Peace Movement
In Search of Exaltation
A Prayer for Peace
IV. No Religion Is an Island
No Religion Is an Island
Choose Life!
On Prayer
The God of Israel and Christian Renewal
What Ecumenism Is
What We Might Do Together
Reinhold Niebuhr
V. The Holy Dimension
An Analysis of Piety
The Holy Dimension
Faith
Prayer
The Biblical View of Reality
Death as Homecoming
Appendices
Interview at Notre Dame
Carl Stern’s Interview with Dr. Heschel
Notes
Sources
Acknowledgments
Reader Comments