Heschel, Hasidism, and Halakha. (Book Notes: Judaism: Jewish Thought and Philosophy).(Book Review)

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Heschel, Hasidism, and Halakha, by Samuel Dresner. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2002. 208 pp. $35.00 (c); $20.00 (p). ISBN 0-8232-2115-6 (c); 0-8232-2116-4 (p).

Born in Warsaw, Abraham Heschel earned a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Berlin and taught in Berlin and Frankfurt. After being deported by the Nazis to Poland in 19...

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