Harold Kasimow
Department of Religious Studies
Grinnell College
Grinnell, Iowa 50112

Harold Kasimow has a Bachelor of Hebrew Literature from the Jewish 
Theological Seminary, where he studied with Abraham Joshua Heschel.  He 
received his Ph.D. in Religion from Temple University in 1976.  He is 
George Drake Professor of Religious Studies at Grinnell College, where he 
has taught since 1972, especially in areas of comparative religion and 
Judaism.  He has written a number of articles on interfaith dialogue and on 
Abraham Joshua Heschel that have been published in the the U.S., England, 
India, and Japan.  He is co-editor, with Byron L. Sherwin, of _No Religion 
Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue_ published 
by Orbis Press in 1991.  At the Parliment of the World's Religions, held in 
Chicago in late summer, 1993, he presented two papers: "A Jewish Encounter 
with Eastern Spirituality" and "The River Jordan and the River Ganges: 
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's View of Other Faiths."