Contributors
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Rabbi Alexander Even-Chen received his Ph.D. from Hebrew University and is currently senior lecturer in Jewish thought at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. He is the author of A Voice from the Darkness, Abraham Joshua Heschel: Phenomenology and Mysticism (in Hebrew) and has written numerous articles on Heschel in English and Hebrew. His most recent book is The Binding of Isaac: Mystical and Philosophical Interpretation of the Bible (in Hebrew).
Morris M. Faierstein studied at the City College of New York, the Hebrew University, and the Jewish Theological Seminary. He received his Ph.D. from Temple University. He is the editor of Heschel’s Prophetic Inspiration after the Prophets: Maimonides and Other Medieval Authorities (Ktav, 1996). He is the editor and translator of Jewish Mystical Autobiographies: Book of Visions and Book of Secrets (Paulist Press: Classics of Western Spirituality, 1999). His other books include All Is in the Hands of Heaven: The Teachings of Rabbi Mordecai Joseph Leiner of Izbica. revised edition (Gorgias Press, 2005). He has also published more than seventy-five articles and reviews in a wide variety of scholarly journals. He is an independent scholar.
Alon Goshen-Gottstein has been director of the Elijah School for the Study of Wisdom in World Religions and lecturer and director of the Center for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha College, both in Jerusalem, since 1997. Ordained a rabbi in 1977, he holds a B.A. from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1982, he did a year of research on the New Testament and ancient religions at Harvard Divinity School. He received his Ph.D. from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1986. Stanford University Press published his The Sinner and the Amnesiac: The Rabbinic Invention of Elisha ben Abuya and Eleazar ben Arach in 2000. His Israel in God’s Presence: An Introduction to Judaism for the Christian Student is forthcoming from Hendrickson Press. [End Page vii]
Harold Kasimow studied with Abraham Joshua Heschel at the Jewish Theological Seminary and wrote his Ph.D. thesis at Temple University on Heschel’s thought. He is the author of The Search Will Make You Free: A Jewish Dialogue with World Religions and co-editor with Byron Sherwin of No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue. In 1999 he edited a special issue of Shofar on Judaism and Asian religions. He is the George Drake Professor of Religious Studies at Grinnell College in Iowa.
Stanislaw Krajewski teaches at the Department of Philosophy of Warsaw University. He is an active member of the Jewish community in Poland. He has been co-chairman of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews since its inception after the changes in 1989 and is the Polish consultant to the American Jewish Committee. He has written papers in the field of logic, philosophy, and Jewish life, including the books Jews, Judaism, Poland (Warsaw: 1997, in Polish), 54 Commentaries to the Torah for Even the Least Religious among Us (Krakow: Austeria 2004, in Polish), Poland and the Jews: Reflections of a Polish Polish Jew (Krakow: Austeria, 2005, in English).
Michael Marmur is the dean of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem. He holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in the Department of Jewish Thought. He specializes in the thought of Abraham Joshua Heschel, particularly the ways in which Heschel weaves traditional Jewish sources into his contemporary theological enterprise.
Donald J. Moore, S.J., is professor emeritus of theology at Fordham University and has published extensively on the writings of Martin Buber and Abraham Joshua Heschel. Since January 2000 he has also been engaged in interfaith dialogue and in work for justice and reconciliation through the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Jerusalem.
Stanislaw Obirek, a former Jesuit priest, is a leading figure in the intellectual and religious life of Poland. After finishing philosophical and theological studies at the Gregorian University in Rome, he received his Ph.D. from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. His books include What Do We Have in Common?: Dialogue with Nonbelievers and Religion: A Shelter or a Prison? (both in Polish). He is interested in the place of religion...
