Abraham Heschel (1907-1972) THEMES ON THIS PAGE:  1. THE INEFFABLE  2. CREATING HIGHER NEEDS  3. RADICAL AMAZEMENT Abraham Heschel (1907-1972) was a Jewish American thinker, rabbi, philosopher, and activist of social justice. He was born in Poland, and then studied at the University of Berlin. He was briefly arrested by the Gestapo, then deported to Poland, which he managed to leave just before the Nazi invasion. Eventually he went to the USA, where he became an influential thinker both within the...