Praying with their Feet: Remembering Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King From: Peacework | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Heschel, Susannah | Copyright American Friends Service Committee, Inc. Dec 2006/Jan 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The photograph of Abraham Joshua Heschel walking arm in arm with Martin Luther King, Jr., in the front row of marchers at Selma has become an icon of American Jewish life, and of Black-Jewish relations. Reprinted in Jewish textbooks, synagogue bulletins, and studies of ecumenical relations, the picture has come to symbolize the great moment of symbiosis of the two communities, Black and Jewish, which today seems shattered.

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