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ecipient of the Herzl Prize, his works include Poisoned Stream and Proud Zion. He died in
1977.
YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI grew up in New York, the son of a Holocaust survivor. He
makes his home in Israel, where he is a senior writer for The Jerusalem Report magazine.
He has written Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, an autobiography.
ARTHUR HERTZBERG is the Bronfman Visiting Professor of the Humanities at New
York University and Professor Emeritus of Religion at Dartmouth College. Rabbi Hertzberg
is the author of many books, including The Zionist Idea; The French Enlightenment and the
Jews; The Jews in America; and Judaism. He is also a frequent contributor to The New
York Times and The New York Review of Books.
THEODORE M. HESBURGH, C.S.C., became president emeritus of Notre Dame in
1987, after heading the institution for thirty-five years. Paralleling his career in higher
education, Dr. Hesburgh's life in public service includes fifteen presidential appointments as
well as service to the Church under four popes. He is a recipient of the Medal of Freedom
for his long-standing interest in peace and development issues and a board member of the
U.S. Institute for Peace.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL, the noted theologian and philosopher, was born in
Warsaw and taught extensively in Europe before coming to the United States in 1940. He
was chosen as Martin Buber's successor at the Frankfort Lehrhaus, an institute for adult
Jewish education. He taught Jewish philosophy, ethics, and mysticism at the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America until his death in 1972. Rabbi Heschel was active in the
civil rights movement, marching with the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and in the
Jewish-Christian dialogue preceding Vatican Council II. His original philosophy of religion