Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan

by Mel Scult

Book Overview

Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century is the first critical examination of the early life of Mordecai Caplet--the sources of his inspiration, the evolution of his thought as a religious ideologue, and his inner struggles.

Kaplan is perhaps the most important Jewish thinker to appear on the American scene in the last one hundred years. Arriving in the United States as a boy, growing up in New York City, becoming thoroughly Americanized, he...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814322808
• ISBN13: 9780814322802
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"