A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism

by Jeffrey S. Gurock

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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?

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0231106270

ISBN13:9780231106276

Release Date:January 1998

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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