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

From: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life andThought | Date: September 22, 2000| Author: HEYMEL, MICHAEL | Copyright information

ABRAHAM HESCHEL [1] BEGAN TEACHING AT NEW YORK'S Jewish Theological Seminary in 1945. A short time later he married Sylvia Straus, a pianist whom he had already met in Cincinnati. Sylvia Straus, "a sensible, religious woman," had studied philosophy and literature. On the recommendation of Arthur Rubinstein she had become a master student of Eduard Steuermann (1892-1964), a Jew of Polish descent who had studied piano with Busoni, composition with Schoenberg and was affiliated with t...

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