Books by Abraham Joshua Heschel

Offers the first English translations of selected writings by Abraham Joshua Heschel from his tumultuous years in Nazi-ruled Germany and months in London exile. Composed during a time of intense crisis for European Jewry, these writings both argue for and exemplify a powerful vision of spiritually rich Jewish learning and its redemptive role.

Heschel's classic work on Maimonides, originally published in Berlin during the thirties, is one of the few scholarly biographies available of the great medieval philosopher.

"e;Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right questions...Awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions."e; This example of Rabbi Heschel's thought and manner of expression, familiar to the readers of his many books, serves as an epigraph to The Wisdom of Heschel.As Ruth Goodhill says in her foreword, "e;These selections from the works of the prophetic giant of the twentieth century, Abraham Joshua Heschel, represent my personal response to his writings. This book, conceived during his lifetime, is offered as an introduction to his thought and to his profound understanding of the agonies of modern society."e;Most of the selections are taken from God in Search of Man, The Insecurity of Freedom, Man Is Not Alone, The Sabbath, The Prophets, and Who Is Man? Among the categories in which the excerpts have been grouped are "e;Questions Man Asks, "e; "e;Man's Needs, "e; "e;Caring for Our Old, "e; "e;Teaching Our Young, "e; "e;Law, "e;"e; The Sabbath, "e; and "e;One World."e;

Contains 66 poems, in English and Yiddish on facing pages, which were written between 1927 and 1933.

Abraham J. Heschel was one of the great Jewish teachers and thinkers of our generation. BETWEEN GOD AND MAN remains the best introduction to his teachings.

Known for his role in the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s, Abraham Joshua Heschel made major scholarly contributions to the fields of biblical studies, rabbinics, medieval Jewish philosophy, Hasidism, and mysticism. This title is his three-volume study of Rabbinic Judaism, presented in English.