Harold Kasimow, at The Blogs

Oct 28, 2022, 6:24 AM

Book Review: Saved by Schindler: Celina Karp Biniaz, by William B. Friedricks

As a Holocaust survivor and a teacher of comparative religion with a focus on Jewish tradition, I have had many opportunities to learn about the Holocaust. Yet, with the exception of reading a few key books on the Holocaust...

Jun 28, 2020, 7:31 AM

A Plea for Religious Humility and Justice

"Without the church, without religious institutions, I would never have been here today." On December 5, 1999, I was fortunate to be one of the 7,000 people to hear these words spoken by President Nelson Mandela at the Parliament of...

Apr 6, 2020, 8:57 PM

Review of Abraham Joshua Heschel: Mind, Heart, Soul by Edward K. Kaplan

In Abraham Joshua Heschel: Mind, Heart, Soul, Edward Kaplan gives us a beautiful and lucid guide to the most creative Jewish philosopher of religion of the twentieth century. Kaplan met Heschel in 1966 when he was working on his Ph.D. thesis...

Apr 15, 2019, 7:45 PM

Book Review: Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom by Ariel Burger

Elie Wiesel is best-known as a novelist, a political activist, and a Nobel Laureate. But according to Ariel Burger, if you asked Wiesel what he saw as the core of his life’s mission, he would say, “I am a...

Jun 9, 2017, 4:38 PM

Sacred Texts and Violence – A Call for Dialogue

“History has made us all neighbors. The age of moral mediocrity and complacency has run out. This is a time for radical commitment, for radical action.” – Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Religious traditions have brought beauty and astonishing enrichment...

About Me

Harold Kasimow has written and published books on Pope John Paul II, Pope Francis, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Jewish-Christian-Muslim-Buddhist relations. His books and articles on interfaith dialogue have been published in the US, Poland, England, Belgium, India, China, and Japan. His latest book is Love or Perish: A Holocaust Survivor's Vision for Interfaith Peace (iPub Global Connection, 2021).