Article: Jewish renewal in pre-nazi Berlin: Abraham Heschel interprets William James.

In 1930 an earnest group of Jewish thinkers, under the shadow of Adolf

Hitler's rising ascent to power, gathered weekly in Berlin to renew Jewish tradition. Its leader was Professor David Koigen (1879-1933), a social philosopher trained in Europe's leading universities, who had studied with Wilhlem Dilthey among other influential scholars. A prominent young member of this intellectual community (called a Philosophische Arbeitsgemeinschaft) was Abraham Heschel (1907-1972), who became a renowned religious thinker, consummate writer, and moral activist after his immigration to the United States in 1940. Heschel's encounter with The Varieties of Religious Experience ...

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