My Legs Were Praying: A Bibliography of Abraham Joseph Heschel by Or N. Rose with Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins
(Monkfish Publishing)
May 16, 2025
ON THE HEELS of the sixtieth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. leading 8,000 protesters on a march from Selma to Montgomery comes a short book about the kippah-clad rabbi who joined on the front lines. Born in Warsaw in 1907, Heschel settled in Cincinnati in 1940 to helm the Hebrew Union College of Reform Judaism, then moved to New York for a posting with the Conservative movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary. Susannah Heschel, who followed in his scholarly footsteps — and introduced the idea of adding an orange to the Passover seder plate, as a symbol of inclusion — endorsed this book by writing the foreword. Marc Weisblott
