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title	:	Dynamic Judaism : The Essential Writings of Mordecai M. Kaplan
author	:	Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem.; Goldsmith, Emanuel S.; Scult, Mel.
publisher	:	Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0823213102
print isbn13	:	9780823213108
ebook isbn13	:	9780585171142
language	:	English
subject	Judaism, Reconstructionist Judaism.
publication date	:	1991
lcc	:	BM45.K3824 1991eb
ddc	:	296.8/344
subject	:	Judaism, Reconstructionist Judaism.

Page iii Dynamic Judaism The Essential Writings of Mordecai M. Kaplan Edited and with Introductions by Emanuel S. Goldsmith and Mel Scult FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS / New York THE RECONSTRUCTIONIST PRESS

Page iv Acknowledgments The editors wish to express their heartfelt gratitude to Kay and Jack Wolofsky of Montreal, to Rabbi David Teutsch of the Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havurot in New York, and to Bonny Fetterman, our editor at Schocken Books, for their interest, encouragement, and assistance. First edition 1985 Fordham University Press corrected reprint 1991 5 7 9 10 8 6 Copyright 1985 by The Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations and Havurot, Emanuel S. Goldsmith and Mel Scult All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, 1881-1983 Dynamic Judaism. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. JudaismAddresses, essays, lectures. 2. Reconstructionist JudaismAddresses, essays, lectures. I. Goldsmith, Emanuel S., 1935-. II. Scult, Mel. III. Title. BM45.K3824 1985 296.8'344 85-2391 Designed by Richard Oriolo Manufactured in the United States of America ISBN 0-8232-1310-2 Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from: The Jews: Their History, Culture and Religion (3d ed.), ed. Louis Finkelstein, pp. 1012-1014, 1017, 1019. Copyright 1949, 1955, 1960 by Louis Finkelstein. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. The Purpose and Meaning of Jewish Existence by M. M. Kaplan, pp. 10, 318-319. Copyright 1964 by The Jewish Publication Society of America. This material is copyrighted by and used through the courtesy of The Jewish Publication Society. "Reconstructionism Is Ecumenical" by M. M. Kaplan. Reprinted from The Jewish Spectator (February 1965), pp. 13-14.

Page v For Barbara Rochelle Gish and Shirley Zebberman Goldsmith with Love

Page vii Contents Mordecai M. Kaplan: His Life, by Mel Scult 3 Mordecai M. Kaplan: His Interpretation of Judaism, by Emanuel S. Goldsmith 15 I The Modern Predicament 31 II Jewish Peoplehood 51 III The Quest for the Divine 67 IV Torah in Our Day 87 V Interpreting the Torah, the Prophets, and the Rabbis 107 VI Interpreting Medieval and Modern Judaism 139 VII Judaism and Community in America 157 VIII Ethics 171 IX Jewish Education 199 X Worship and Ritual 213 XI Reconstructionist Judaism 229 Bibliography 244 Index 251

Page 3 Mordecai M. Kaplan: His Life by Mel Scult Mordecai M. Kaplan began his life's journey within the confines of a small Lithuanian town on the outskirts of Vilna. He was born on a Friday evening in June of 1881. Kaplan's submergence in a total Jewish atmosphere is illustrated by the fact that he knew his day of birth only by the Jewish calendar until he went to the New York Public Library as a young man to look up the corresponding date. Kaplan's family was a traditional one in every respect, and his father, Israel Kaplan, was a learned man. When Kaplan was a young boy he did not see much of his father because Reb Israel was travelling from one yeshivah to another. Israel Kaplan eventually received rabbinical ordination from the greatest rabbis of the day, Rabbi Isaac Elhanan Spektor of Kovno and Rabbi Naphtali Tzevi Judah Berlin (Ha-Netziv) of the Volozhin Yeshivah. He also studied with and received ordination from Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines. Reines was the rabbi in the town of Swenziany where the Kaplans lived. Later Reines became head of a famous innovative yeshivah and the key figure in the founding of the religious Zionist group known as Mizrachi. In 1908 when Mordecai Kaplan was on his honeymoon in Europe, he visited Rabbi Reines, was examined by him, and received rabbinical ordination. In 1888, Israel Kaplan came to New York to serve in the Rabbinical Court set up by Rabbi Jacob Joseph, who had been appointed Chief Rabbi of the city. During that year of the great storm, Anna Kaplan and her two children, Mottel (called Maurice, then Max, then Mark, then Mordecai) and Sprinza (later called Sophie), stayed with relatives in Paris, where Kaplan remembers playing near the Eiffel Tower, which was in the process of being built for the Paris Exposition of 1889. In July, the family came to New York to join Israel and settled on the Lower East Side. Israel Kaplan soon left the services of the Chief Rabbi, who had become embroiled in controversy, and served as a rabbinical supervisor at a number of local slaughtering houses.

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