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About Edward K. Kaplan
See more books from this AuthorIn 1951, Christian theologian Reinhold Niebuhr predicted that Abraham Joshua Heschel would ""become a commanding and authoritative voice not only in the Jewish community but in the religious life of America."" This first volume of a two-volume biography follows Heschel from his birth in Warsaw in...
| Read Full Review of Abraham Joshua Heschel: Proph...The description of Heschel's correspondence with Buber is most intriguing, for Buber seems to have become almost a father figure to Heschel, who replaced Buber as the head of the Lehrhaus in Frankfurt, after the older scholar had gone to live in the land of Israel.
| Read Full Review of Abraham Joshua Heschel: Proph...Kaplan captures the mismatch poignantly by comparing the close bond Heschel formed with the school's black janitor with his difficulties engaging the rabbinical students (a number of whom taunted the European immigrant with derogatory nicknames.) Moreover, Heschel's raw emotions about the destruc...
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