Rabbi Max Heller: Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929

by Bobbie Malone

Book Overview

This biography of a pioneering Zionist and leader of American Reform Judaism adds significantly to our understanding of American and southern Jewish history.

Max Heller was a man of both passionate conviction and inner contradiction. He sought to be at the center of current affairs, not as a spokesperson of centrist opinion, but as an agitator or mediator, constantly struggling to find an acceptable path as he confronted the major issues of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081730875X
• ISBN13: 9780817308759
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"