Will herberg biography

American writer, intellectual and scholar

Will Herberg
Herberg in 1939
Born	William Herberg (1901-06-30)June 30, 1901 Lyakhavichy, Belarus, Russian Empire
Died	March 26, 1977(1977-03-26) (aged 75) Morristown, New Jersey
Occupation	political activist, theologian, writer
Subject	politics, theology, anti-communism
Spouse	Anna Thompson Herberg

William Herberg (June 30, 1901 – March 26, 1977) was an American writer, intellectual, and scholar.

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William Herberg (June 30, – March 26, ) was an.

Will Herberg (), Jewish theologian, social thinker, and biblical exegete, represented an independent strand in American Jewish leadership.

William Herberg was an American writer, intellectual, and scholar.

A communist political activist during his early years, Herberg gained wider public recognition as a social philosopher and sociologist of religion, as well as a Jewish theologian. He was a conservative thinker during the 1950s and a contributor to the National Review magazine.

Biography

Early years

William Herberg, commonly known as "Will," was born on June 30, 1901, to a Jewish family in the shtetl of Lyakhavichy, Belarus, located near the city of Minsk in what was then part of the