Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (1881–1983)
Autor de Judaism as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American-Jewish Life
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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. mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan 1913-1934 (American Jewish Civilization Series) (2001) 12 copias
If not now, when?: Toward a reconstitution of the Jewish people; conversations between Mordecai M. Kaplan and Arthur A.… (1973) 9 copias
Sabbath prayer book : with a supplement containing prayers, readings and hymns and with a new translation (1979) 5 copias
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 — Autor — 1 copia
MESILLAT YESHARIM 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Path of the Just (1936) — Ed. & Tr., algunas ediciones; Traductor, algunas ediciones; algunas ediciones — 281 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1881-06-11
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1983-11-08
- Lugar de sepultura
- Glendale, New York
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA (naturalized)
- Lugares de residencia
- Lithuania (birthplace)
New York, New York, USA - Educación
- City College of New York
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Columbia University (M.A. | Ph.D.) - Ocupaciones
- Rabbi
religious thinker
essayist
educator
writer - Organizaciones
- Society for the Advancement of Judaism
- Biografía breve
- 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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- ISBNs
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His call for Judaism to become even more social justice oriented is extremely crucial in these days.