In This Hour: Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile by Plotkin, Helen
In This Hour: Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile by Plotkin, Helen

In This Hour: Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile

In This Hour offers the first English translations of selected German writings by Abraham Joshua Heschel from...
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In This Hour: Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile by Plotkin, Helen

In This Hour: Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile

$76.82
In This Hour: Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile by Plotkin, Helen

In This Hour: Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile

$76.82
Author: Helen Plotkin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In This Hour offers the first English translations of selected German writings by Abraham Joshua Heschel from his tumultuous years in Nazi-ruled Germany and months in London exile, before he found refuge in the United States. Moreover, several of the works have never been published in any language. Composed during a time of intense crisis for European Jewry, these writings both argue for and exemplify a powerful vision of spiritually rich Jewish learning and its redemptive role in the past and the future of the Jewish people.

The collection opens with the text of a speech in which Heschel laid out with passion his vision for Jewish education. Then it goes on to present his teachings: a set of essays about the rabbis of the Mishnaic period, whose struggles paralleled those of his own time; the biography of the medieval Jewish scholar and leader Don Yitzhak Abravanel; reflections on the power and meaning of repentance, written for the High Holidays in 1936; and a short story on Jewish exile, written for Hanukkah 1937. The collection closes with a set of four recently discovered meditations--on suffering, prayer, spirituality, and God--in which Heschel grapples with the horrors unfolding around him. Taken together, these essays and story fill a significant void in Heschel's bibliography: his Nazi Germany and London exile years.

These translations convey the spare elegance of Heschel's prose, and the introduction and detailed notes make the volume accessible to readers of all knowledge levels.

As Heschel teaches history, his voice is more than that of a historian: the old becomes new, and the struggles of one era shed light on another. Even as Heschel quotes ancient sources, his words address the issues of his own time and speak urgently to ours.


Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-72) was a rabbi, scholar, and philosopher. In 1937 Martin Buber appointed him as his successor at the central organization for Jewish adult education in Frankfurt am Main. In time he became one of the most influential modern philosophers of religion in the United States. He formulated an original philosophy of Judaism, expressed in such foundational books as Man Is Not Alone (1951) and God in Search of Man (1955).



Author: Helen Plotkin, Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Published: 06/01/2019
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 8.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780827613225


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2019 pg. 118

About the Author
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-72) was a rabbi, scholar, and philosopher. In 1937 Martin Buber appointed him as his successor at the central organization for Jewish adult education in Frankfurt am Main. In time he became one of the most influential modern philosophers of religion in the United States. He formulated an original philosophy of Judaism, expressed in such foundational books as Man Is Not Alone (1951) and God in Search of Man (1955).
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