A Passion for Truth - Hardcover

Heschel, Abraham Joshua

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374229929 ISBN 13: 9780374229924

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1973

Synopsis

In his final book, completed a few weeks before his death, one of the most beloved religious leaders of our time gives us a moving and meaningful exploration of how the great religious teachers of tradition affect and shape our own personal spirituality.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A Passion for Truth presents a surprising parallel study of two figures, the Hasidic tzaddik (righteous man, spiritual leader), Reb Menachem Mendl of Kotzk (1787-1859), and the Christian mystic, father of existentialism, Danish theologian ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)...Rabbi Heschel is never heavy and all that he presents in this aphoristic, quotable book is cast in terms that touch all our lives.
Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0374229929
• ISBN 13: 9780374229924
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336