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Edward K. Kaplan
The first full-length, integral study of the fifty prose poems Baudelaire wrote between 1857 and his death in 1867, collected posthumously under the title Le Spleen de Paris. Edward Kaplan…
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A strategy for reading Heschel’s major works, as well as a new route to understanding religious writing in general: a lucid study of modern religious and ethical thought using literary…
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In this first one-volume biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel in English, Edward K. Kaplan tells the engrossing, behind-the-scenes story of the life, philosophy, struggles, yearnings, writings, and activism of one…
Born in Warsaw, raised in a Hasidic community, and reaching maturity in secular Jewish Vilna and cosmopolitan Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) escaped Nazism and immigrated to the United States…
Charles Baudelaire
From Edouard Manet to T.S. Eliot to Jim Morrison, the reach of Charles Baudelaire’s influence is beyond estimation. In this translation, Baudelaire offers a singular view of 1850s Paris. Evoking…
Edward K. Kaplan,Samuel H. Dresner
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was one of the outstanding Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This book, the first of two volumes, is the comprehensive biography of Heschel. It traces…
Abraham Joshua Heschel,Edward K. Kaplan
Contains 66 poems, in English and Yiddish on facing pages, which were written between 1927 and 1933.
This title discusses Thomas Merton’s discovery of and developing relationship with Judaism. It features Merton’s correspondence with Jewish scholars and participation in the Catholic Church’s opening to respect for Jewish…
