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Literally “plucked from the fire” that consumed the Jews of Europe during WWII, Rabbi Abraham Heschel (1907-1972) escaped to the U.S. in 1940 only to be shocked by the racism in Cincinnati, Ohio. The rabbi’s unique partnership and personal friendship with the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (whom he met at a conference on race and religion in the watershed year 1963) thrust Rabbi Heschel into the international spotlight. In this book, religious editor and writer Eve F. Roshevsky delves into Rabbi Heschel’s spirituality, theology, and philosophy to explain how he became a powerful advocate for civil rights and Jewish-Christian relations. Your purchase of this book helps support TUJ programs in the community and in the world.