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Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community
Gurock, Jeffrey S.; Schacter, Jacob J.
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Description for Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community
Paperback. Examining the intellectual influences that prompted Mordecai M. Kaplan to reject fundamental Orthodox precepts, this text asks whether an established religious group can learn from a heretic who has rejected its most fundamental beliefs. Num Pages: 256 pages, 19 photos,. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HRJ; HRLB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
Mordecai M. Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, was the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker in the 20th century. Examining the intellectual influences that prompted Kaplan to reject fundamental Orthodox precepts, Jeffrey S. Gurock and Jacob J. Schacter ask a question crucial to the understanding of any religion: can an established religious group learn from a heretic who has rejected its most fundamental beliefs? More than a biography, "A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community" is also a social history of American Orthodoxy and of American Judaism over the last century. It demonstrates the wide range of ... Read more
Mordecai M. Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, was the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker in the 20th century. Examining the intellectual influences that prompted Kaplan to reject fundamental Orthodox precepts, Jeffrey S. Gurock and Jacob J. Schacter ask a question crucial to the understanding of any religion: can an established religious group learn from a heretic who has rejected its most fundamental beliefs? More than a biography, "A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community" is also a social history of American Orthodoxy and of American Judaism over the last century. It demonstrates the wide range of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231106276
SKU
V9780231106276
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About Gurock, Jeffrey S.; Schacter, Jacob J.
Jeffrey S. Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, is the author of When Harlem Was Jewish, 1870-1930 and The Men and Women of Yeshiva, both published by Columbia.Jacob J. Schacter is rabbi of the Jewish Center in New York City. Editor of the The Torah u-Madda Journal and Jewish Tradition and the Nontraditional Jew, he ... Read more
Reviews for Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community
This fine biography focuses not only on the emergence of Kaplan's unique thought and approach to Judaism but on the larger thought-world of American orthodoxy from which his thinking emerged and with which it stood in continuing debate. The resultant study not only lays bare Kaplan's mind and personality but, equally important, reveals much about the nature of American Orthodoxy. ... Read more