Abraham, our father. (Hassidic Jewish teacher, philosopher, intellectual, poet and scholar Abraham J. Heschel)

Commonweal | October 9, 1998| | Copyright

This book is simply stunning! I know that it goes against the rules of reviewing to make such an uncritical statement, but I can't help it. What Edward Kaplan and Samuel Dresner have done in this biography is so remarkable that the regular rules of reviewing have to be suspended.

The book is remarkable on two counts. The first is the incredible research on display. It reads as if every scrap of paper that Abraham Heschel ever wrote or that anyone else ever wrote referring to him has somehow been found by these two. The sheer volume of the details of Heschel's life ...

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