Or N Rose: My Legs Were Praying, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"Succinct, inspiring biography of a bridge-building Jewish leader, supplemented by 15 black-and-white photographs. On March 21, 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. led 8, 000 protesters on a 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. They invited a distinguished group of religious figures to join them in the front lines, including Abraham Joshua Heschel-a gifted Jewish scholar and teacher whose recent book on the Hebrew prophets was a source of inspiration to Dr. King. Heschel believed standing up for others-particularly the most vulnerable members of society-is a sacred obligation. He wrote that a religious person must seek to hold God and humankind "in one thought at one time," suffering "harm done to others," making "compassion" one's "greatest passion." Heschel first learned these essential values as a child in Eastern Europe. This is his story"--