{"product_id":"abraham-joshua-heschel-mind-heart-soul-9780827614741","title":"Abraham Joshua Heschel: Mind, Heart, Soul","description":"In this first one-volume English-language full biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Edward K. Kaplan tells the engrossing, behind-the-scenes story of the life, philosophy, struggles, yearnings, writings, and activism of one of the twentieth century's most outstanding Jewish thinkers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Kaplan takes readers on a soulful journey through the rollercoaster challenges and successes of Heschel's emotional life. As a child he was enveloped in a Hasidic community of Warsaw, then he went on to explore secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin. He improvised solutions to procure his doctorate in Nazi-dominated Berlin, escaped the Nazis, and secured a rare visa to the United States. He articulated strikingly original interpretations of Jewish ideas. His relationships spanned not only the Jewish denominational spectrum but also Catholic and Protestant faith communities. A militant voice for nonviolent social action, he marched with Martin Luther King Jr. (who became a close friend), expressed strong opposition to the Vietnam War (while the FBI compiled a file on him), and helped reverse long-standing antisemitic Catholic Church doctrine on Jews (participating in a secret meeting with Pope Paul VI during Vatican II). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From such prodigiously documented stories Heschel himself emerges--mind, heart, and soul. Kaplan elucidates how Heschel remained forever torn between faith and anguish; between love of God and abhorrence of human apathy, moral weakness, and deliberate evil; between the compassion of the Baal Shem Tov of Medzibozh and the Kotzker \u003ci\u003erebbe\u003c\/i\u003e's cruel demands for truth. \"My heart,\" Heschel acknowledged, is \"in Medzibozh, my mind in Kotzk.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward K. Kaplan \u003c\/b\u003eis Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at Brandeis University. He is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972\u003c\/i\u003e; winner of the National Jewish Book Award; and coauthor, with Samuel H. Dresner, of \u003ci\u003eAbraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jewish Publication Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503948796178,"sku":"9780827614741","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aafa1455-df82-4aed-8750-1139255b57c0.jpg?v=1730805995","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/abraham-joshua-heschel-mind-heart-soul-9780827614741","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}