Abraham

1944 · réf. 2ivCc0017 — New York: Philip Feldheim 1944. Book. Like New. Soft Cover . Coyright 1944 by Philip Feldheim. 8vo or 8° Medium Octavo: 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 67 pp. A rare hard-to-find gem! An excellent spotlessly clean copy! Clean fresh sharp tight essentially flawless copy with crisp pages and clean text. Synopsis: Published when Heschel was only 37 years old while at HUC. Heschel "U.S. Scholar and philosopher descended on his father's side from Dov Baer the Maggid of Mezeritch and Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apta Opatow ; on his mother's side from Levi Isaac of Berdichev . After traditional Jewish studies he obtained rabbinic ordination semikhah . At the age of 20 he enrolled in the University of Berlin where he obtained his doctorate and at the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums where he also taught Talmud and received a second liberal rabbinical ordination. In 1937 Martin Buber appointed him his successor at the central organization for Jewish adult education Mittelstelle für jüdische Erwachsenenbildung and the Jüdisches Lehrhaus at Frankfurt on the Main. Deported by the Nazis in October 1938 to Poland he taught for eight months at the Warsaw Institute of Jewish Studies. He immigrated to England where he established the Institute for Jewish Learning in London. In 1940 he was invited by Julian Morgenstern to teach at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati where he was associate professor of philosophy and rabbinics for five years. From 1945 he taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America JTS as professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism. . Philip Feldheim Paperback