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Language: en
Pages: 263
Pages: 263
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Mordecai M. Kaplan began his life's journey with the confines of a small Lithuanian town on the outskirts of Vilna. He was born on a Friday evening in June of 1
Language: en
Pages: 444
Pages: 444
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Kaplan, who died in 1983 at the age of 102, arrived in America as a boy, and, as he grew, sought to find ways of making Judaism compatible with the American exp
Language: en
Pages: 252
Pages: 252
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-02-03 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, was the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker in the twentieth century. This
Language: en
Pages: 479
Pages: 479
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-10 - Publisher: NYU Press
The life, thought, work, and contemporaries of the renowned Judaicist (1881-1983) are explored in 23 contributed essays by authors who approach Kaplan from a br