Heschel, Abraham Joshua (1907–1972)

Polish-born US educator and author. He was professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1946–72). A spokesperson on issues of social injustice, he wrote many scholarly and popular books, including Unknown Documents on the History of Hasidism (1952) and The Problem of the Individual (1958). Heschel was born in Warsaw, Poland. He studied and taught Jewish theology in Germany until 1938, when he was deported to Warsaw. He emigrated to the USA in 1941.