University Press of America
Pages: 312
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8191-7567-0 • Hardback • February 1990 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
Morton C. Fierman, brilliant pedagogue, penetrates the heart, soul, and mind of Heschel, and keeps alive the flame which Heschel first kindled....
— Samson H. Levey, Professor of Rabbinics & Jewish Religious Thought, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles; The American Rabbi
In every reader, I trust, he will awaken a strong desire to go on from this book to the writings by which Abraham Joshua Heschel has enriched our world.
— Rabbi Alfred Wolf, Ph.D., Director, Skirball Institute on American Values of the American Jewish Committee; The American Rabbi
The book is no mere anthology, even though it contains abundant quotations from Heschel. Fierman guides his student-readers over the more difficult terrain and prepares them to meet the great teacher at his best....This book captures some of the care,skill, reflection and passion Heschel displayed throughout his life on prayer, Israel, education, justice, the bible and much more.
— The American Rabbi
The book is no mere anthology, even though it contains abundant quotations from Heschel. Fierman guides his student-readers over the more difficult terrain and prepares them to meet the great teacher at his best....This book captures some of the care, skill, reflection and passion Heschel displayed throughout his life on prayer, Israel, education, justice, the bible and much more.
— The American Rabbi
Morton C. Fierman, brilliant pedagogue, penetrates the heart, soul, and mind of Heschel, and keeps alive the flame which Heschel first kindled....
— Samson H. Levey, Professor of Rabbinics & Jewish Religious Thought, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles; The American Rabbi
In every reader, I trust, he will awaken a strong desire to go on from this book to the writings by which Abraham Joshua Heschel has enriched our world.
— Rabbi Alfred Wolf, Ph.D., Director, Skirball Institute on American Values of the American Jewish Committee; The American Rabbi