Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (1881–1983)
Autor von 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 mehr anzeigen 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. weniger anzeigen
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Judaism without supernaturalism; the only alternative to orthodoxy and secularism (1958) 28 Exemplare
Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan 1913-1934 (American Jewish Civilization Series) (2001) 11 Exemplare
If not now, when?: Toward a reconstitution of the Jewish people; conversations between Mordecai M. Kaplan and Arthur A.… (1973) 9 Exemplare
Sabbath prayer book : with a supplement containing prayers, readings and hymns and with a new translation (1979) 5 Exemplare
The New Haggadah for the Pesach seder : סדר חדש 3 Exemplare
Mordechai M. Kaplan Jubilee Volume on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday: English Section 2 Exemplare
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 17, 1951-52 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 13, 1947-48 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 15, 1949-50 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 16, 1950-51 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 4, 1938-39 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 19, 1953-54 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 18, 1952-53 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 9, 1943-4 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 10, 1944-45 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 12, 1946-47 1 Exemplar
The Aims of Reconstructionism 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 11, 1945-46 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 20, 1954-55 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 14, 1948-49 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 5-8, 1939-43 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist, Vol. 1-3, 1935-38 1 Exemplar
The Reconstructionist Papers 1 Exemplar
Festival Prayer Book with Supplementary Prayers and Readings and with a New English Translation 1 Exemplar
Basic Values in Jewish Religion 1 Exemplar
New American Haggadah — Autor — 1 Exemplar
MESILLAT YESHARIM 1 Exemplar
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The Path of the Just (1936) — Ed. & Tr., einige Ausgaben; Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben; einige Ausgaben — 279 Exemplare
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- 1881-06-11
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- 1983-11-08
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- Glendale, New York
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- Lithuania (birthplace)
New York, New York, USA - Ausbildung
- City College of New York
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Columbia University (M.A. | Ph.D.) - Berufe
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- 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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His call for Judaism to become even more social justice oriented is extremely crucial in these days.