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Melech Ravitch’s Two Encounters with Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
- Purdue University Press
- Volume 26, Number 1, Fall 2007
- pp. 6-8
- 10.1353/sho.0.0007
- Article
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Melech Ravitch (1893–1976), an important Yiddish poet and essayist, was the author of Meyn Leksikon a three-volume collection of brief essays or sketches of Yiddish authors, actors, and cultural activists. Abraham Joshua Heschel was the subject of a sketch in Vol. 2, pp. 21–23. The following is Ravitch’s essay. I have tried to preserve his style and vocabulary.