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b746475
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Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem,1881-1983.
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Judaism as a civilization : : toward a reconstruction of American-Jewish life /\ Mordecai M. Kaplan ; with a new introductory essay by Arnold Eisen ; introduction to the 1981 edition by Arthur Hertzberg.
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Philadelphia :: Jewish Publication Society,, 1994.
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1 online resource (xlix, 601 pages)
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0827605293
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: 0827609183
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: 9780827610507
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0827605293
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9780827609181
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| Notes
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OldControl:muse9780827610507.
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Previously published: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America ; New York : Reconstructionist Press, 1981. With new introd.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Contents -- Introduction to Judaism as a Civilization at 75 -- Kaplan's Judaism at Sixty: A Reappraisal -- Preface ot the 1967 Edition -- Preface to the 1957 Edition -- Preface to the 1934 Edition -- Introduction to the 1981 Edition -- Introductory -- I. The Present Crisis in Judaism -- Part One. The Factors in the Crisis -- A. The Factors of Disintegration -- II. the Modern Political Order -- III. The Modern Economic Order -- IV. The Modern Ideology -- B. The Factors of Conservation -- V. Inherent Factor of Conservation
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VI. Environmental Factors of ConservationC. The Decisive Factor -- VII. Needed: A Program of Reconstruction -- Part Two. The Current Versions of Judaism -- VIII. The Reformist Version of Judaism -- IX. Critique of the Reformist Version of Judaism -- X. Conservative Judaism (Right Wing of Reformism) -- XI. The Neo-Orthodox Verson of Judaism -- XII. Critique of Neo-Orthodoxy -- XIII. Conservative Judaism (Left Wing of Neo-Orthodoxy) -- Part Three. The Proposed Version of Judaism -- XIV. Juaism as a Civilization
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XV. Constituent Elements of Judaism as a CivilizationXVI. Implications of the Proposed Version of Judaism -- Part Four. Israel. The Status and Organization of Jewry -- XVII. The Nationhood of Israel -- XVIII. Nationalism as a Cultural Concept -- XIX. Cultural Nationalism as the Call of the Spirit -- XX. The Land of Israel -- XXI. Jewish Communal Organization -- Part Five. God. The Development of the Jewish Religion -- XXII. Introductory. The Need for Reorientation to the Problem of Religion -- XXIII. The Place of Religion in Jewish Life
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XXIV. The Folk Aspect of the Jewish ReligionXXV. The Past Stages of the Jewish Religion -- XXVI. The Functional Method of Interpretation -- Part Six. Torah. Judaism as a Way of Life for the American Jew -- XXVII. Introductory. Torah as a Way of Life -- XXVIII. Jewish Milieu -- XXIX. Jewish Folkways -- XXX. Jewish Ethics -- XXXI. The Meaning of Jewish Education in American -- Conclusion -- XXXII. Creative Judaism -- A Program -- Notes -- Index
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Jews-- United States-- Politics and government.
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Judaism-- United States.
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Reconstructionist Judaism.
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Jews-- Politics and government.
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Judaism.
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Reconstructionist Judaism.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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296.8/344
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BM197.7.K26 1994
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