Title
Dynamic Judaism : The Essential Writings of Mordecai M. Kaplan / Emanuel Goldsmith, Mel Scult.
ISBN
9780823295395
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©1991
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (264 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780823295395 doi
Summary
Mordecai M. Kaplan was born in a small Lithuanian town on the outskirts of Vilna on a Friday evening in June of 1881. Kaplan was raised in a predominately Jewish atmosphere, which is shown by the fact that he knew his day of birth only by the Jewish calendar until he went to the New York Public Library as a young man to look up the corresponding date. His family was extremely traditional, and his father, Israel Kaplan, was a learned man.Kaplan's concept of Judaism as an evolving religious civilization was widely influential in 20th-century American Jewish life, and his founding of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College created a new denomination. This book contains a biographical essay and excerpts from all of his major works.
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Available in Other Form
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Frontmatter
Contents
Mordecai M. Kaplan: His Life
Mordecai M. Kaplan: His Interpretation of Judaism
I The Modern Predicament
II Jewish Peoplehood
III The Quest for the Divine
IV Torah in Our Day
V Interpreting the Torah, the Prophets, and the Rabbis
VI Interpreting Medieval and Modern Judaism
VII Judaism and Community in America
VIII Ethics
IX Jewish Education
X Worship and Ritual
XI Reconstructionist Judaism
Bibliography
Index
