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Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Vol. I 1913-1934 (American Jewish Civilization (Hardcover))
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
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Description for Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Vol. I 1913-1934 (American Jewish Civilization (Hardcover))
Hardcover. Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism, was a pre-eminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi. His life, which he meticulously recorded, embodies the American Jewish experience of the first half of the 20th century. This first volume covers his early years as a rabbi. Series: American Jewish Civilization S. Num Pages: 672 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; BG; BJ; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 880.
Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism, was a pre-eminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi. His life embodies the American Jewish experience of the first half of the 20th century. With passionate intensity and uncommon candour, Kaplan compulsively recorded his experience in his journal (some 10,000 pages). He confided his personal involvements with prominent Jewish leaders such as Chaim Weizmann, Solomon Schechter and Louis Brandeis, and his impressions of key Jewish historical moments such as the founding of the Hebrew University in 1925. We see him wrestling with his concept of God and the problem of evil. In his journal ... Read more
Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism, was a pre-eminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi. His life embodies the American Jewish experience of the first half of the 20th century. With passionate intensity and uncommon candour, Kaplan compulsively recorded his experience in his journal (some 10,000 pages). He confided his personal involvements with prominent Jewish leaders such as Chaim Weizmann, Solomon Schechter and Louis Brandeis, and his impressions of key Jewish historical moments such as the founding of the Hebrew University in 1925. We see him wrestling with his concept of God and the problem of evil. In his journal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Condition
New
Series
American Jewish Civilization S.
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
Detroit, MI, United States
ISBN
9780814325759
SKU
V9780814325759
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About Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
Mel Scult is a professor of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College and a professor of history at City University of New York, Graduate Center. He is the co-editor of Dynamic Judaism: The Essential Writings of Mordecai Kaplan (Fordham University Press, 1989) and The American Judaism of Mordecai Kaplan (New York University Press. 1990), and author of Judaism Foces the Twentieth ... Read more
Reviews for Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Vol. I 1913-1934 (American Jewish Civilization (Hardcover))
The longer the period during which I fail to record my experience the harder I find it to resume the practice. But I must keep up this diary. It is the only evidence I have that I have existed. I need it to counteract the feeling of blankness with which I am often seized. My past is as though it ... Read more