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Free Shipping, HC, Unmarked and Tight Binding. Brill 1973
Rabbinic Literature and Greco-Roman Philosophy: A Study of Epicurea and Phetorica in Early Midrashic Writings
(Studia Post Biblica – Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)
by Henry A. Fischel
Henry A. Fischel (1913 – 2008) was an American-German professor emeritus of Near Eastern languages and cultures at Indiana University. Fischel was an influential figure in founding the Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. Under his direction, the Lilly Endowment gave the university a grant in 1972–73 to develop a Jewish Studies Program
He was born in Bonn in 1913. Heinz Albert Fischel was born to parents Anna and Adolf. His father was a shoemaker. As a child in Bonn, he enjoyed playing chess, soccer, tennis, and also competitive boxing. He also was a talented pianist. He completed a degree in rabbinical studies at the Hochschule für Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin, and was enrolled as a student at the University of Berlin at the same time. After the Krystallnacht Pogrom, the Nazis imprisoned him at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.[1] He received his degree in rabbinical studies from the Hochschule in 1939. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1945. He took a position at Brandeis University in 1958, and then accepted a position to join the faculty at Indiana University in 1961