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Zusatztext "Abraham Joshua Heschel has been called "the most important Jewish thinker of the modern period." -What is Enlightenment?! September-November 2005 Informationen zum Autor Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a preeminent scholar, acclaimed spiritual writer, and prophetic activist. He was a professor of ethics and mysticism at Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. Morton M. Leifman is Emeritus Professor of Liturgy and Dean of the Cantorial School of Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. Klappentext These 66 poems, here in English and Yiddish on facing pages, were collected in the first book Abraham Joshua Heschel ever published. They appeared in Warsaw in 1933 when Heschel was 26 years old and still a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Berlin. Written between 1927 and 1933-and never published in English before-this is the intimate spiritual diary of a devout European Jew, loyal to the revelation at Sinai and afflicted with reverence for all human beings. These poems sound themes that will resonate throughout Heschel's later popular writings: human holiness, a passion for truth, awe and wonder before nature, God's quest for righteousness, solidarity with the downtrodden, and unwavering commitment to tikkun olam. In these poems we also discover a young man's acute loneliness, dismay at God's distance, and dreams of spiritual and sensual intimacy with a woman. "Abraham Joshua Heschel's first calling as a writer was to become in his early twenties a major poet in Yiddish. In this earliest work, Heschel stated all the themes of his later development as a religious thinker and passionate Jew. This work is now translated magnificently, in a way that is sensitive to Heschel's Yiddish, by Morton Leifinan. Taken together, in the original Yiddish and in contemporary English, this book is a classic." Vorwort Written between 1927 and 1933—and never published in English before—this is the intimate spiritual diary of a devout European Jew, loyal to the revelation at Sinai and afflicted with reverence for all human beings. Zusammenfassung These 66 poems, here in English and Yiddish on facing pages, were collected in the first book Abraham Joshua Heschel ever published. They appeared in Warsaw in 1933 when Heschel was 26 years old and still a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Berlin. Written between 1927 and 1933—and never published in English before—this is the intimate spiritual diary of a devout European Jew, loyal to the revelation at Sinai and afflicted with reverence for all human beings. These poems sound themes that will resonate throughout Heschel's later popular writings: human holiness, a passion for truth, awe and wonder before nature, God's quest for righteousness, solidarity with the downtrodden, and unwavering commitment to tikkun olam. In these poems we also discover a young man's acute loneliness, dismay at God's distance, and dreams of spiritual and sensual intimacy with a woman. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowkledgments Introduction by Edward K. Kaplan Section I: Man Is Holy Section II: Bearing Witness Section III: To a Lady in Dream Section IV: Between Me and the World Section V: Nature Pantomimes Section VI: Repairing the World...
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowkledgments Introduction by Edward K. Kaplan Section I: Man Is Holy Section II: Bearing Witness Section III: To a Lady in Dream Section IV: Between Me and the World Section V: Nature Pantomimes Section VI: Repairing the World
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
