SPEAKERS GUIDE

Dr. Edward K. Kaplan

Professor
Brandeis University

15 Fountain St.
West Newton, MA 02465
Tel: (781) 736-3214
edkkaplan@brandeis.edu

Dr. Edward Kaplan is a professor of French and comparative literature as well as chair of the Program in Religious Studies at Brandeis University . Dr. Kaplan presented a paper on “Reverence and Responsibility: Abraham Joshua Heschel on Nature and the Self” at the 1998 Harvard University conference on Judaism and the Natural World. He recently published Holiness in Words: A.J. Heschel’s Poetics of Piety, which includes a study guide to Heschel’s writings. He is currently completing a two-volume biography of Abraham Heschel. Volume one, AJH, Prophetic Witness, was published in 1998 with Yale University Press.

Topics on which qualified to speak:

• Theological / Philosophical Perspectives
• Ethical Perspectives
• The Life and Work of Abraham Joshua Heschel

Types of Presentations available for:

• Scholar-in-residence for congregations
• Scholar-in-residence for campus
• Synagogue speaker / sermon
• Campus speaker
• Conference speaker