Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (1881–1983)
Autore di Judaism as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American-Jewish Life
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Mordecai Kaplan was born in Lithuania and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1889. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and received a master's degree from Columbia University. He first served as an associate rabbi of Kehillath Jeshurun, an Orthodox synagogue in mostra altro New York, and later joined the faculty of JTS. Kaplan continued teaching and writing until his death in 1983, at the age of 102. Mel Scult, professor emeritus of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College, is the author of Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai Kaplan and the editor of Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Volume l 1913-1934. mostra meno
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Opere di Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan 1913-1934 (American Jewish Civilization Series) (2001) 12 copie
If not now, when?: Toward a reconstitution of the Jewish people; conversations between Mordecai M. Kaplan and Arthur A.… (1973) 9 copie
Sabbath prayer book : with a supplement containing prayers, readings and hymns and with a new translation (1979) 5 copie
The Aims of Reconstructionism 1 copia
The Reconstructionist Papers 1 copia
Festival Prayer Book with Supplementary Prayers and Readings and with a New English Translation 1 copia
Basic Values in Jewish Religion 1 copia
New American Haggadah — Autore — 1 copia
MESILLAT YESHARIM 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Path of the Just (1936) — Ed. & Tr., alcune edizioni; Traduttore, alcune edizioni; alcune edizioni — 284 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1881-06-11
- Data di morte
- 1983-11-08
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Glendale, New York
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA (naturalized)
- Luogo di residenza
- Lithuania (birthplace)
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- City College of New York
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Columbia University (M.A. | Ph.D.) - Attività lavorative
- Rabbi
religious thinker
essayist
educator
writer - Organizzazioni
- Society for the Advancement of Judaism
- Breve biografia
- Rabbi Kaplan held the first public celebration of a Bat Mitzvah in the United States in 1922. During the period from the 1920s to the 1940s, he and his son-in-law, Rabbi Ira Eisenstein, helped develop Reconstructionist Judaism into a major movement in North American Judaism.
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While this book is very dated, it is still very also very much worth reading for the action items, the program that he list, and also for the structure and which he lays out his vision of civilizations in general, and Judaism in particular as a civilization.
His call for Judaism to become even more social justice oriented is extremely crucial in these days.
His call for Judaism to become even more social justice oriented is extremely crucial in these days.
Written right to left. Small illustrations in black and gray don't show off Leonard Weisgard's use of bright colors in his many children's books. The introduction explains the changes, omissions, and additions made.
Amazing insights into deep world of Judaism. Strong definitions of many movements of Judaism, including reconstructionist.
A contradiction that backed me away from this book. Kaplan writes of absorbing practices of other cultures for practice during times of leisure. Then goes on to write about religions of native cultures being unsophisticated. Seems different religions are sophisticated and complex in different ways. Some by way of thought, dance, spoken word, or integration with agrarian practices. I am interested to know reasons Kaplan mentioned native religions being unsophisticated.… (altro)
A contradiction that backed me away from this book. Kaplan writes of absorbing practices of other cultures for practice during times of leisure. Then goes on to write about religions of native cultures being unsophisticated. Seems different religions are sophisticated and complex in different ways. Some by way of thought, dance, spoken word, or integration with agrarian practices. I am interested to know reasons Kaplan mentioned native religions being unsophisticated.… (altro)
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His call for Judaism to become even more social justice oriented is extremely crucial in these days.