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Abraham Joshua Heschel

1907 - 1972

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Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972) was a Polish-American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abraham Joshua Heschel has received more than 723,497 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Abraham Joshua Heschel is the 962nd most popular philosopher (up from 967th in 2019), the 738th most popular biography from Poland (up from 744th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Polish Philosopher.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

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  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Abraham Joshua Heschel ranks 962 out of 1,267. Before him are Michel Onfray, Lysander Spooner, Leontion, Edmund Gettier, Herbert Feigl, and Critolaus. After him are Georges Florovsky, Anselm of Laon, Huang Zongxi, Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, Harald Høffding, and Fazlur Rahman Malik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Abraham Joshua Heschel ranks 177. Before him are Sergei Shtemenko, Béla Barényi, Nicanor Zabaleta, Petro Grigorenko, Janusz Kusociński, and Sándor Veress. After him are Amedeo Nazzari, Ethel Smith, James M. Gavin, Sukhdev Thapar, Benny Carter, and Roger Vailland. Among people deceased in 1972, Abraham Joshua Heschel ranks 121. Before him are Maximus V of Constantinople, Ennio Flaiano, Robert Casadesus, Solomon Lefschetz, Gustav Wiederkehr, and Erik Eriksen. After him are Max Aub, Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, Thomas C. Kinkaid, Joseph Cornell, Rudolf Belling, and Stanislaus Kobierski.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Abraham Joshua Heschel ranks 738 out of 1,694. Before him are Kurt Feldt (1897), Wincenty Kadłubek (1150), Janusz Kusociński (1907), Bernhard Lichtenberg (1875), Johann Gottlieb Georgi (1729), and Salomėja Nėris (1904). After him are Willibald Alexis (1798), Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866), Basia (1954), Marcin Bielski (1495), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), and Jan Olszewski (1930).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Abraham Joshua Heschel ranks 25. Before him are John Cantius (1390), Symon Budny (1530), Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928), Franz Neumann (1900), Józef Maria Bocheński (1902), and Leo Baeck (1873). After him are Stanisław Staszic (1755), Jerzy Żuławski (1874), Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503), Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886), Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886), and Michał Heller (1936).

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