A Witness to the Existence of God: Music in the Work of Abraham J. Heschel

Judaism, Fall, 2000 by Michael Heymel

(8.) Martin Luther, Tischreden, WATR Nr. 7034.

(9.) Preface to the Symphoniae iucundae (1538), in: WA 50,368-374, quoted in Hermann Pfrogner, Musik. Geschichte ihrer Deutung (Freiburg--Muenchen: Alber Verlag, 1954), p. 158.

(10.) See GM 6f. and Susannah Heschel, "Abraham Joshua Heschel," op. cit., p. 200f.

(11.) Karl Erich Groezinger, Musik und Gesang in der Theologie der fruehen juedischen Literatur (Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1982), p. 335.

(12.) See the comment of Klezmer musician Andy Statman: "Instrumental music is a spiritual music, it is a form of worshipping God" (in Klezmer Music: A Marriage Of Heaven & Earth, Ellipsis Arts 1996. CD 4090, Booklet, p. 36).

(13.) Fritz A. Rothschild, "Abraham J. Heschels Beitragzum judisch-christlichen Dialog" ("Abraham J. Heschel's Contribution to jewish-Christian Dialogue"), Reformierte Kirchenzeitung6 (1987): 206- 211, here p. 207.

(14.) Fritz A. Rothschild, "Leben zwischen Verzweiflung und Hoffnung. Abraham Heschel als Interpret des Chassidismus" ("Life between Despair and Hope: Abraham Heschel as Interpreter of Hasidism"), in Der Chassidismus. Leben zwischen Verzweiflung und Hoffnung(Herrenalber Forum Bd. 15), edited by Evangelische Akademie Baden (Karlsruhe: Verlag Evangelischer Presseverband Baden e.V., 1996), p. 89-106, here p. 95.

(15.) See Abraham J. Heschel, "The Mystical Element in Judaism (1960)", in Understanding Rabbinic Judaism: From Talmudic to Modern Times, edited by Jacob Neusner (New York, 1974), p. 279-302, here pp. 289 and 295.

(16.) Fritz A. Rothschild, "Abraham Heschels religioeses Denken" ("Abraham Heschel's Religious Thought"), Emuna 6 No. 6 (1971): 400-410, here p. 404.