# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:00:03.253Z

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name: "Abraham Joshua Heschel"
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description: "Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Polish-American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of widely read books on Jewish philosophy and was a leader in the U.S. civil rights movement."
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birthDate: "1907-01-11"
deathDate: "1972-12-23"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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