Abraham Joshua Heschel was descended from preeminent European rabbis on both sides of the family.

In his book The Prophets, Abraham Joshua Heschel describes the unique aspect of the Jewish prophets as compared to other similar figures.

The Abraham Joshua Heschel School in Manhattan.

In 2009, a highway in Missouri was named " Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel Highway " after a Springfield, Missouri area Neo-Nazi group cleaned the stretch of highway as part of an " Adopt-A-Highway " plan.

* Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness & Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972, biography by Edward K. Kaplan ISBN 0-300-11540-7

*** Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets.

* Abraham Joshua Heschel

Well-known non-Orthodox Jewish philosophers include Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Mordecai Kaplan, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Will Herberg, and Emmanuel Lévinas.

* 1907 – Abraham Joshua Heschel, Warsaw-born American rabbi, theologian, and philosopher ( d. 1972 )

“ And that Christ being Lord, and God the Son of God, and appearing formerly in power as Man, and Angel, and in the glory of fire as at the bush, so also was manifested at the judgment executed on Sodom, has been demonstrated fully by what has been said .” Then I repeated once more all that I had previously quoted from Exodus, about the vision in the bush, and the naming of Joshua ( Jesus ), and continued: “ And do not suppose, sirs, that I am speaking superfluously when I repeat these words frequently: but it is because I know that some wish to anticipate these remarks, and to say that the power sent from the Father of all which appeared to Moses, or to Abraham, or to Jacob, is called an Angel because He came to men ( for by Him the commands of the Father have been proclaimed to men ); is called Glory, because He appears in a vision sometimes that cannot be borne ; is called a Man, and a human being, because He appears arrayed in such forms as the Father pleases ; and they call Him the Word, because He carries tidings from the Father to men: but maintain that this power is indivisible and inseparable from the Father, just as they say that the light of the sun on earth is indivisible and inseparable from the sun in the heavens ; as when it sinks, the light sinks along with it ; so the Father, when He chooses, say they, causes His power to spring forth, and when He chooses, He makes it return to Himself.

* Abraham Joshua Heschel

Process theology soon influenced a number of Jewish theologians including Rabbis Max Kadushin, Milton Steinberg and Levi A. Olan, Harry Slominsky and, to a lesser degree, Abraham Joshua Heschel.

: Heschel, Abraham Joshua, Tucker, Gordon & Levin, Leonard, Heavenly Torah: As Refracted Through the Generations, London, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005

Commentator Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that the book is written as if Jeremiah not only heard as words but personally felt in his body and emotions the experience of what he prophesied:

* Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets.

Despair sometimes acts together with Desire when she / he is plotting against the elder Endless, most notably when Despair takes on a challenge with Morpheus over the life of Joshua Abraham Norton, seemingly at Desire's bidding.

In the so-called “ Polenaktion ”, more than 12, 000 Polish-born Jews, among them philosopher and theologian Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and future literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, were expelled from Germany on 28 October 1938, on Hitler's orders.

According to Joshua Coffin, the early settlers included " Captain John Pike, the ancestor of General Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who was killed at the battle of Queenstown in 1813 ; Thomas Bloomfield, the ancestor of Joseph Bloomfield, some years governor of New Jersey, for whom the township of Bloomfield, New Jersey is named ; John Bishop, senior and junior ; Jonathan Haynes ; Henry Jaques ; George March ; Stephen Kent ; Abraham Toppan, junior ; Elisha Ilsley ; Hugh March ; John Bloomfield ; Samuel Moore ; Nathaniel Webster ; John Ilsley ; and others.

Early settlers of the time included Rouse Perry, Benjamin Brown, Jesse Brown and Joshua Brown, Elias Gilbert, Jabez French, Abraham Lane, Isaac Lane and Jacob Lane, Francis Briggs and Peleg Briggs, Jr., Edward Craft, David Southerland and John Griffin.

Abraham Joshua Heschel has also been linked to this tradition.

* Abraham Joshua Heschel

As the late Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, " no religion is an island.

* December 23 – Abraham Joshua Heschel, theologian

Abraham Joshua Heschel summarized this dilemma when he attempted to understand Auschwitz: " To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy.

Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress, appeared at the March on Washington on 28 August 1963, noting that " As Jews we bring to this great demonstration, in which thousands of us proudly participate, a twofold experience -- one of the spirit and one of our history " Two years later Abraham Joshua Heschel of the Jewish Theological Seminary marched in the front row of the Selma-to-Montgomery march.

On January 14, 1863, the Alcotts received a telegram that Louisa was sick ; Bronson immediately went to bring her home, briefly meeting Abraham Lincoln while there.

But Douglass also asked, " Can any colored man, or any white man friendly to the freedom of all men, ever forget the night which followed the first day of January 1863, when the world was to see if Abraham Lincoln would prove to be as good as his word?

( December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883 ) was an American physician who was convicted and imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the 1865 assassination of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln.

* January 10 – Abraham Darby I successfully produces cast iron using coke fuel at his Coalbrookdale blast furnace in Shropshire, England.

* January 23 or January 28 – Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra, mathematician, astronomer, and poet ( b. 1092 or 1093 )

Initially known as Cross Roads, Pruntytown was renamed Williamsport in honor of Abraham Williams, a longtime resident, on January 1, 1801.

The single " Gallant Men " made Dirksen, 71 years 3 days old, the oldest person to reach the Hot 100's top 40 at the time ( 7 January 1967 ), at # 33, on its way to peak at # 29 two weeks later, about 2 1 / 2 years before Moms Mabley would, at 75 years 4 months old, unseat him with her version of " Abraham, Martin And John " peaking at # 35.

In January 1789, Abraham Covalt established a small fortified settlement called Covalt Station in what is now Terrace Park.

* Letter to Major General Joseph Hooker from President Abraham Lincoln, January 26, 1863

Salmon Portland Chase ( January 13, 1808May 7, 1873 ) was an American politician and jurist who served as U. S. Senator from Ohio and the 23rd Governor of Ohio ; as U. S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln ; and as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States.

* January 10-Anders Abraham Grafström

Abraham Raimbach ( 16 February 1776 – 17 January 1843 ), was an English line-engraver of Swiss descent.

Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin ( January 29, 1761 – August 12, 1849 ) was a Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, politician, diplomat, congressman, and the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury.

* William Doolin, Abraham Colles and his contemporaries, Journal of the Irish Medical Association, January 1955, vol. 36, no. 211

* Abraham Lincoln referenced Lovejoy's murder in his Lyceum address in January 1838.

Joliot-Curie recalled visits to the College, which had a cyclotron, by German scientists including Erich Schumann, who had initiated the German nuclear project, and controlled it until it had been handed over to the Reichsforschungsrat in 1942 ; by Abraham Esau, who had been in charge of nuclear physics under the Reichsforschungsrat ; and by Walter Gerlach, who had replaced him in January 1944.

Reacting to the inauguration of United States President Barack Obama on 20 January 2009, Ntoutoume Emane said the event fulfilled the dream of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, and he said that he had read Obama's books.

In November 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States, and Civil War would be declared in January 1861.

Robert Wexler ( born January 2, 1961 ) is the president of the Washington-based S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace.

On January 8, 1896, Kahn married Addie Wolff and following the couple's year-long tour of Europe, Kahn joined Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in New York City, where his father-in-law, Abraham Wolff, was a partner.

* On January 6, 2009, BBC Audiobooks America, published the first complete recording of the Lincoln – Douglas Debates, starring actors David Strathairn as Abraham Lincoln and Richard Dreyfuss as Stephen Douglas with an introduction by Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce III Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College.

* January 10-Industrial Revolution: Abraham Darby I successfully produces cast iron using coke fuel at his Coalbrookdale blast furnace in Shropshire, England.

Although Abbott was not appointed as a full, substantive rank general, on January 25, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln nominated Abbott for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from January 15, 1865 for gallant services in the capture of Fort Fisher and the U. S. Senate confirmed the award on February 14, 1865.