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Subject: Sylvia Straus Heschel

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Date Posted: March 26, 2007 10:22:51 EDT

Sylvia Straus Heschel, a pianist and the widow of the prominent theologian Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, died Monday, her daughter said. She was 94.

Abraham Heschel taught Jewish ethics and mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where he combined deep scholarship with a strong moral passion that led him to march with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and to oppose the war in Vietnam.

Sylvia Straus was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Cleveland.

Heschel's daughter, Susannah Heschel, said her parents met during World War II in Cincinnati, where her mother was studying the piano with the Polish-born concert pianist Severin Eisenberger and her father, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Poland, was teaching at Hebrew Union College.

Sylvia Straus Heschel read her husband's speeches before he gave them and traveled widely with him, their daughter said. The couple attended King's 1968 funeral together and traveled to Italy in 1971, where they had a private audience with Pope Paul VI.

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