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A modern heretic and a traditional community : Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism
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A modern heretic and a traditional community : Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism

Author: Jeffrey S Gurock; Jacob J Schacter
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Mordecai M. Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, was the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker in the twentieth century. This book follows Kaplan from his earliest days as a member the New York Orthodox community, through his period of private estrangement, into his public divorce from Orthodoxy and ultimately through his many decades as reconstructionism's leader. The book is  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Mordecai Menahem Kaplan; Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jeffrey S Gurock; Jacob J Schacter
ISBN: 0231106262 9780231106269
OCLC Number: 35110291
Description: x, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Jeffrey S. Gurock and Jacob J. Schacter.
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Mordecai M. Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, was the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker in the twentieth century. This book follows Kaplan from his earliest days as a member the New York Orthodox community, through his period of private estrangement, into his public divorce from Orthodoxy and ultimately through his many decades as reconstructionism's leader. The book is also a social history of American Orthodoxy and American Judaism over the last century.

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