Pushing the Boundaries

Abraham Joshua Heschel,
A Centenary Conference

March 11-12, 2007 - Brandeis University

SPIRITUAL RADICAL: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America published September 2007.

Faithful to Jewish tradition, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) pushed the boundaries of conventional approaches to scholarship and public life. He was a radical religious thinker, a masterful literary stylist, and bold activist recognized by Jews and Christians as the authoritative voice for biblical Judaism in the United States.

This centenary conference explores major areas of Abraham Joshua Heschel’s life and works and recognizes the publication of the first intellectual and cultural biography of Heschel by Edward Kaplan of Brandeis University.