The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan Paperback / softback
by Mel Scult
Part of the The Modern Jewish Experience series
Paperback / softback
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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 America.
Kaplan was indeed a radical, rejecting such fundamental Jewish beliefs as the concept of the chosen people and a supernatural God.
Although he valued the Jewish community and was a committed Zionist, his primary concern was the spiritual fulfillment of the individual.
Drawing on Kaplan's 27-volume diary, Mel Scult describes the development of Kaplan's radical theology in dialogue with the thinkers and writers who mattered to him most, from Spinoza to Emerson and from Ahad Ha-Am and Matthew Arnold to Felix Adler, John Dewey, and Abraham Joshua Heschel.
This gracefully argued book, with its sensitive insights into the beliefs of a revolutionary Jewish thinker, makes a powerful contribution to modern Judaism and to contemporary American religious thought.
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- Pages:360 pages, 1 b&w illus.
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:19/03/2015
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- ISBN:9780253017116
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:360 pages, 1 b&w illus.
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:19/03/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780253017116
