The Earth Is the Lord's

An internationally renowned scholar and theologian details the “the golden period in Jewish history, in the history of the Jewish soul” (Abraham Joshua Herschel, from the preface by the author).

A riveting portrayal of a bygone culture of Jews in Eastern Europe by one of the foremost Jewish thinkers of the century, Earth Is The Lord's reveals the daily life of Jews prior to the twentieth century. With woodcut illustrations by Ilya Schor complementing the text, Hershel's book is one of the rare volumes in English “that plunge us so deeply into the depths of Jewish reality” (Irving Kristol, Commentary).

“Dr. Heschel re-creates the mind and character of a whole people and of an entire era. Not only Jews, but all who regard the culture of the inner life as important will find this book moving and meaningful.”―Virginia Kirkus

“Dr. Heschel admirably succeeds in conveying much of the inner content and the glory of traditional Jewish culture as it grew and throbbed in the towns and villages of Central and Eastern Europe. In few and eloquent pages the world can learn what it has lost.” ―Marvin Lowenthal, New York Herald Tribune Book Review

“I do not know of any work in which the spiritual life of Eastern European Jewry is portrayed with such complete understanding and thorough appreciation.” ―Dr. Louis Finkelstein