Eva fleischner biography

When Eva Fleischner left Boston for France in as a Fulbright scholar, she was engaged to be married. When her fiancé arrived in Paris to join her, she had changed her mind.

Something deeper was beckoning: "If I had to pick one word for what had happened to me, it would be 'God.' "

What was it about that year in Paris pursuing studies in medieval philosophy that enabled her to discover, as she told her friend Herbert Heavenrich, author of In Search of the Sacred, "things I had been searching for all my life without knowing it"?

How, then, in midlife did Judaism become so significant in her thirst for the living God?

Fleischner died in Claremont, California, July 6, , the eve of her 95th birthday. I knew her as a woman of simple elegance and sophisticated thought, charismatic in an understated way.

Fleischner’s peripatetic life began at 13, when her parents managed to get her out of Austria fo