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The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Mel Scult
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Modern Jewish Experience

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Mordecai M. Kaplan, founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, is the only rabbi to have been excommunicated by the Orthodox rabbinical establishment in
Dynamic Judaism
Language: en
Pages: 263
Authors: Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

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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
Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Mel Scult
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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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
A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Jeffrey S. Gurock
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-02-03 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, was the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker in the twentieth century. This
The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Language: en
Pages: 479
Authors: Emanuel Goldsmith
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-10 - Publisher: NYU Press

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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