Abraham Joshua Heschel (World Philosophers and Their Works)
Early Life
Abraham Joshua Heschel was the youngest of five children of Moshe Mordechai Heschel and Reizel (née Perlow) Heschel. His mother and father were descended from Hasidic rabbis or rebbes, nobles in the Jewish world. Heschel grew up among people whose life was devoted to the observance and study of Judaism. He was considered a prodigy in the sacred Hebrew texts, including the “Hebrew Bible” (the term Heschel preferred to “Old Testament”) and the Talmud (Jewish civil and religious law). He spoke and was literate in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, and later English. As a...
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