A Passion for Truth

by Abraham Joshua Heschel

Overview

The last work of a beloved leader. Abraham Joshua Heschel sets Soren Kierkegaard, Christian existentialist philosopher, and Hasidic masters Menahem Mendl and the Baal Shem Tov in conversation about despair, hope and God. Deep yet lively and accessible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781879045415
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	04/01/1995
Series:	Jewish Lights Classic Reprint Series
Edition description:	1st pbk. ed
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	2.17(w) x 3.35(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

Abraham Joshua Heschel was born in Poland in 1907, received his early education from a yeshiva (a school for Talmudic or rabbinical study) and earned his doctorate from the University of Berlin. In 1939, six weeks before the Nazi invasion of Poland, he left for London and then for the United States, where he taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City from 1945 until his death in 1972. An activist as well as a scholar and a teacher, Heschel was deeply engaged in social movements for peace, civil rights and interfaith understanding.