Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America

Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America
By Edward K. Kaplan
Yale University Press
544 pages; $40
"Abraham Joshua Heschel was capable of enormous acts of kindness, and he was also capable of enormous petulance. He was conscious of having been raised as the prince of a noble hassidic dynasty, but he was also conscious of having been raised in a sect that stressed humiliation as a means of character training. He was capable of enormous vision, but also of enormous insecurity. "

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