We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism

by Shirley Idelson

Book Overview

How Rabbi Stephen S. Wise changed the trajectory of American Reform Judaism over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first

In 1922, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, a leader of the Zionist movement, established the Jewish Institute of Religion (JIR), a nondenominational rabbinical seminary in New York City. Having already founded the thriving Free Synagogue movement and the American Jewish Congress, he intended to revolutionize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817321314
• ISBN13: 9780817321314
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 9.1"