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Born in Warsaw, raised in a Hasidic community, and reaching maturity in secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) escaped Nazism and immigrated to the United States in 1940. This lively and readable book tells the comprehensive story of his life and work in America, his politics and personality, and how he came to influence not only Jewish debate but also wider religious and cultural debates in the postwar decades. A worthy sequel to his widely-praised biography of Heschel's early years, Edward Kaplan's new volume draws on previously unseen archives, FBI files, interviews with people who knew Heschel, and analyses of his extensive writings. Kaplan explores Heschel's shy and private side, his spiritual radicalism, and his vehement defence of the Hebrew prophets' ideal of absolute integrity and truth in ethical and political life. Of special interest are Heschel's interfaith activities, including a secret meeting with Pope Paul VI during Vatican II, his commitment to civil rights with Martin Luther King, Jr., his views on the state of Israel, and his opposition to the Vietnam War. A tireless challenger to spiritual and religious complacency, Heschel stands as a dramatically important witness.

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9780300115406 | Yale Univ Pr, September 28, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Born in Warsaw, raised in a Hasidic community, and reaching maturity in secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) escaped Nazism and immigrated to the United States in 1940.

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9780300151398 | Yale Univ Pr, March 17, 2009, cover price $33.00

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Product Description: Baudelaire's Prose Poems is the first full-length, integral study of the fifty prose poems Baudelaire wrote between 1857 and his death in 1867, collected posthumously under the title Le Spleen de Paris. Edward Kaplan resurrects this neglected masterpiece by defining the structure and meaning of the entire collection, which Kaplan himself has translated as The Parisian Prowler...read more

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9780820312187, titled "Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Esthetic, the Ethical, and the Religious in the Parisian Prowler" | Univ of Georgia Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A study of 50 prose poems Baudelaire wrote between 1857 and his death in 1867 and collected posthumously under the title "Le Spleen de Paris", translated as "The Parisian Prowler".

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9780820333731, titled "Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Esthetic, The Ethical, and the Religious in The Parisian Prowler" | Univ of Georgia Pr, January 1, 2009, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Baudelaire's Prose Poems is the first full-length, integral study of the fifty prose poems Baudelaire wrote between 1857 and his death in 1867, collected posthumously under the title Le Spleen de Paris.

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Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was one of the outstanding Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. A renowned American theologian and interpreter of tradition, he was author of such books as "Man Is Not Alone", "God in Search of Man", and "The Prophets". This book, the first of two volumes, is a comprehensive biography of Heschel. Based on interviews with Heschel's friends and family, archival documents and Heschel's previously unknown writings in Yiddish, German and Hebrew, the book traces Heschel's life from his birth in Warsaw in 1907 to his emigration to the United States in 1940. Edward Kaplan and Samuel Dresner describe how Heschel came of age in a Hasidic community and reached maturity in secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin, speaking out as a religious philosopher during the advent of Nazism. They relate how he became a teacher in Berlin, in Martin Buber's education programme in Frankfurt (where his lifelong debate with Buber originated), in Warsaw, and in London, while the several Jewish cultures he had absorbed were being destroyed. They show that he was already intellectually and spiritually mature when he emigrated to the United States, fully prepared for his dual roles as interpreter of Jewish piety and social activist.

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9780300071863 | Yale Univ Pr, May 25, 1998, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was one of the outstanding Jewish thinkers of the 20th century.

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9780300124644 | Yale Univ Pr, March 28, 2007, cover price $22.00

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780826418937 | Bilingual edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 1, 2007), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: These 66 poems, here in English and Yiddish on facing pages, were collected in the first book Abraham Joshua Heschel ever published.

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Brief essays offer a variety of views of 1850s Paris and share observations on everyday modern life

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9780820311623, titled "The Parisian Prowler/Le Spleen De Paris, Petits Poemes En Prose" | Univ of Georgia Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Brief essays offer a variety of views of 1850s Paris and share observations on everyday modern life

Product Description: A strategy for reading Heschel's major works, as well as a new route to understanding religious writing in general: a lucid study of modern religious and ethical thought using literary criticism."A brilliant, and at the same time, moving, and deeply personal interpretation of the works of one of the greatest religious thinkers of this century...read more

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9780791428672 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: A strategy for reading Heschel's major works, as well as a new route to understanding religious writing in general: a lucid study of modern religious and ethical thought using literary criticism.

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9780791428689 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: A strategy for reading Heschel's major works, as well as a new route to understanding religious writing in general: a lucid study of modern religious and ethical thought using literary criticism.

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Brief essays offer a variety of views of 1850s Paris and share observations on everyday modern life

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9780820311630 | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 1, 1990, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Brief essays offer a variety of views of 1850s Paris and share observations on everyday modern life

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