Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel
Heschel in 1964
Personal life
Born	(1907-01-11)January 11, 1907 Warsaw, Congress Poland
Died	December 23, 1972(1972-12-23) (aged 65) New York, New York, U.S.
Spouse	Sylvia Straus ​ (m. 1946)​
Children	Susannah
Alma mater	University of Berlin Higher Institute for Jewish Studies
Religious life
Religion	Judaism
Denomination	Orthodox, Conservative
Profession	Rabbi, theologian, philosopher

Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972) was a Polish-American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of widely read books on Jewish philosophy and was a leader in the U.S. civil rights movement.^[1][2]