Maimonides: A Biography.(Book review) From: Shofar | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 University of Nebraska Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Maimonides: A Biography, by Abraham Joshua Heschel, translated by J. Neugroschel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982.

Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote this biography of Maimonides in German when he was a young man of only twenty-eight, the first major work of Heschel's rich and varied career. It is now almost seventy-five years old, and yet it still speaks clearly, cogently, and coherently. It also demonstrates how the academic study of Judaism has changed--many would say declined--in the intervening years. From Heschel's biography, which is long and strong on reading and ...

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