Authors: Abraham Joshua Heschel, Susannah Heschel
ISBN-13: 9780374524951, ISBN-10: 0374524955
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: May 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-72), one of the foremost Jewish savants of our time, was internationally known as scholar, author, activist, and theologian.
This first collection of Heschel's essays - compiled, edited and with an introduction by his daughter Susannah Heschel, is a stunning reminder of the virtuosity of one of the most well respected minds in Judaic studies.
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
Introduction | ||
To Be a Jew: What Is It? | 3 | |
The Moment at Sinai | 12 | |
Existence and Celebration | 18 | |
Hasidism as a New Approach to Torah | 33 | |
Israel as Memory | 40 | |
We Cannot Force People to Believe | 44 | |
A Time for Renewal | 47 | |
Pikuach Neshama: To Save a Soul | 54 | |
The Meaning of Repentance | 68 | |
On the Day of Hate | 71 | |
No Time for Neutrality | 75 | |
Symbolism and Jewish Faith | 80 | |
The Spirit of Jewish Prayer | 100 | |
Toward an Understanding of Halacha | 127 | |
Yom Kippur | 146 | |
Teaching Religion to American Jews | 148 | |
Jewish Theology | 154 | |
The Mystical Element in Judaism | 164 | |
A Preface to an Understanding of Revelation | 185 | |
God, Torah, and Israel | 191 | |
The Meaning of This War (World War II) | 209 | |
The Plight of Russian Jews | 213 | |
The Moral Dilemma of the Space Age | 216 | |
Required: A Moral Ombudsman | 219 | |
The Reasons for My Involvement in the Peace Movement | 224 | |
In Search of Exaltation | 227 | |
A Prayer for Peace | 230 | |
No Religion Is an Island | 235 | |
Choose Life! | 251 | |
On Prayer | 257 | |
The God of Israel and Christian Renewal | 268 | |
What Ecumenism Is | 286 | |
What We Might Do Together | 290 | |
Reinhold Niebuhr | 301 | |
An Analysis of Piety | 305 | |
The Holy Dimension | 318 | |
Faith | 328 | |
Prayer | 340 | |
The Biblical View of Reality | 354 | |
Death as Homecoming | 366 | |
App. Interview at Notre Dame | 381 | |
App. Carl Stern's Interview with Dr. Heschel | 395 | |
Notes | 413 | |
Sources | 423 | |
Acknowledgments | 427 |