Tag Archives: Heschel

Heschel Conference at UCLA (May 3-4)

Posted on May 4, 2015 by

A little late, but here’s the program for the big Heschel at UCLA. Looking forward to the gossip. You can find the full schedule here.

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Zigzag (Abraham Joshua Heschel & Visual Thinking)

Posted on April 9, 2015 by

The author of Visual Thinking (1969), Rudolf Arnheim must have read The Earth is the Lord’s by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Arnheim writes about, “The gestures of ghetto Jews, whose mind are formed by the traditional sophistry of Talmudic thinking, ‘appear … Continue reading →

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Heschel Modern (Dots, Marks, & God)

Posted on April 6, 2015 by

You have to read him with a selective eye. But this little bit of Heschel struck me as very “modern,” when he writes, “…the ineffable is cryptic, inarticulate: dots, marks of secret meaning, scattered hints…” (Man Is Not Alone, p.75). These … Continue reading →

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“My People Was Burned to Death in Poland”  (Abraham Joshua Heschel)

Posted on February 17, 2015 by

A world on fire. And no one cares. Whenever I work through Heschel’s Man is Not Alone, I spend a lot of time on his construction of the ultimate question. It’s not “Is there a God?” It’s not “why is … Continue reading →

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(Without the Beard) Modern Abraham Joshua Heschel

Posted on February 15, 2015 by

I’ve seen the photograph of the very young Heschel on the front cover of Edward Kaplan and Samuel Dresner’s biography, Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness. But in this photograph, Heschel is already middle aged. When I stumbled upon the picture online … Continue reading →

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Man is Not Alone (Abraham Heschel Modern)

Posted on February 12, 2015 by

I’m not sure if this is the cover art for the very first edition of Heschel’s Man is Not Alone, but it’s definitely the best. There’s an early cover in yellow with Michelangelo’s  The Creation of Adam. The marketers must … Continue reading →

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A Symbol of God or Empty Chair Aniconism (Abraham Joshua Heschel)

Posted on February 11, 2015 by

The human person must strive to become a symbol of God —  to judge by its twofold repetition this notion seems to constitute the main point of Man’s Quest for God, Abraham Joshua Heschel’s 1954 little book of essays on … Continue reading →

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Louis Kahn & Abraham Joshua Heschel (Synagogues & Sabbath) (Architecture & Light)

Posted on February 27, 2014 by

Just read for class Susan G. Solomon’s Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Architecture: Mikkveh Israel and the Midcentury American Synagogue. As the title and subtitle indicate, the book pivots around the designs for Kahn’s unrealized Mikveh Israel project for Independence Mall … Continue reading →

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American Jewish Thought Looney Tunes Modern(ist) Landscape (1950)

Posted on February 25, 2014 by

I finally decided to include something on postwar American synagogue architecture, using Susan G. Solomon’s Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Architecture as a platform with which to juxtapose the philosophical-theological thought of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Joseph Soloveitchik. With the recent … Continue reading →

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Light in the Iron Cage (Heschel and Gnostic Religion)

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

  (last Thursday night at corner of West End Avenue & W.86th St) In Man is Not Alone (1955) Abraham Joshua Heschel described the moment of revelation as one in which overwhelming light fills up “the iron cage” in which we … Continue reading →

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