Press Releases Heschel Legacy Evening
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SOCIAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT EXPLORED THROUGH A SPECIAL EVENING CELEBRATION OF RABBI ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELDr. Susannah Heschel, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, Jewish Community Federation President Stephen Hoffman, UN Ambassador Andrew Young, Congressman Louis Stokes, and Reverend Marvin McMickle, to Honor Life of Heschel
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, born in Poland in 1907 and deported by the Nazi’s in 1938, was rescued and brought to the U.S. by Cincinnati’s Hebrew Union College. Heschel saw the teachings of the Hebrew prophets as a call for social action in the United States and played a significant role in the civil rights movement and in Christian-Jewish dialogue. His daughter, Dr. Susannah Heschel, is a Jewish scholar in her own right. She currently holds the Eli Black Chair in Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries. Together with Senator Sherrod Brown, Jewish Community Federation President Stephen Hoffman, UN Ambassador Andrew Young, Congressman Louis Stokes, and Reverend Marvin McMickle, they will offer their perspectives on the great legacy of Heschel, as well as what communities and the country need to do to continue improving civil rights and social justice.
About Dr. Susannah HeschelDr. Susannah Heschel holds the Eli Black Chair in Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. She received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Colorado College in 2005. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, and her numerous publications include a prize-winning monograph, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press), which won a National Jewish Book Award, and a forthcoming book, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton University Press). The mission of Siegal College is to promote the study of Judaism by transmitting the best of classical Jewish learning and modern scholarship, preparing Jewish educators and other communal professionals, facilitating the Jewish journey of adult learners, serving as the Jewish higher education resource to the community, and providing a common ground for people of diverse backgrounds. Siegal College offers academic degree programs and adult continuing education courses in Jewish studies, Hebrew, and education. Siegal College today offers one of the largest graduate programs in Jewish education, provides the largest adult continuing Jewish education program in Cleveland, and is the national leader in Jewish distance learning. Siegal College is based in Beachwood, Ohio and can be found online at www.siegalcollege.edu. |
