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Abraham Joshua Heschel

1907 - 1972

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abraham Joshua Heschel is the 1,014th most popular philosopher (down from 962nd in 2019), the 804th most popular biography from Poland (down from 738th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Polish Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Abraham Joshua Heschel ranks 1,014 out of 1,267. Before him are Zhang Binglin, Gregory of Tatev, Anna Kingsford, Karl Groos, Hermann Usener, and Samuel Clarke. After him are Stanisław Staszic, Achille Mbembe, Jerzy Żuławski, Colotes, Merab Mamardashvili, and Chinmayananda Saraswati.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Abraham Joshua Heschel ranks 207. Before him are Giuseppe Occhialini, Georges Speicher, Ragnar Nurkse, Germaine Tillion, Ilia Vekua, and Willy Busch. After him are Camargo Guarnieri, Mascha Kaléko, Israel Albert Horowitz, Paul Magloire, Jean Van Houtte, and James M. Gavin. Among people deceased in 1972, Abraham Joshua Heschel ranks 146. Before him are Rudolf Belling, Jimmy Douglas, Gustav Wiederkehr, Abeid Karume, Alfons Gorbach, and Martim Mércio da Silveira. After him are Marianne Moore, Alfred Schmidt, Max Fleischer, Balys Dvarionas, Robert Andersson, and Markos Vamvakaris.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Abraham Joshua Heschel ranks 804 out of 1,694. Before him are Gerda Steinhoff (1922), Salomon Jadassohn (1831), Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919), Leo White (1882), Danuta Siedzikówna (1928), and Janusz Gajos (1939). After him are Edward Osóbka-Morawski (1909), Stanisław Staszic (1755), Alfred Saalwächter (1883), Mascha Kaléko (1907), Jerzy Żuławski (1874), and Alfred Pringsheim (1850).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Abraham Joshua Heschel ranks 25. Before him are Franz Neumann (1900), Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928), Symon Budny (1530), Florian Znaniecki (1882), Józef Maria Bocheński (1902), and Leo Baeck (1873). After him are Stanisław Staszic (1755), Jerzy Żuławski (1874), Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503), Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886), Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886), and Michał Heller (1936).

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