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Civil Rights Leader. Anti-Vietnam War Activist. Rabbi.

How did Abraham Joshua Heschel, a Hasidic rabbi from Warsaw, become a progressive Jewish icon?

Join us as we explore why Heschel remains a symbol of the fight to make progressive Jewish values relevant in the secular world with Julian Zelizer, author of the new Jewish Lives biography Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement.

Music in this episode:

Charles Albert Tindley - We Shall Overcome