Kaplan emigrated to the United States from Lithuania at the age of 8. After graduating from Columbia University in 1902, he was ordained a Conservative rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he taught for the next 50 years. His attempts to adapt Judaism to the modern world, particularly to the American situation, led to the establishment of a new movement, Reconstructionism. He saw Judaism as representing, first and foremost, a religious civilization and proposed a Jewish theology shaped by Jewish experience and Jewish ethics.
A classic in modern Jewish thought ... a work of contemporary as
well as historical importance. It continues to function as a
central text for the Reconstructionist movement, whose influence
continues to grow in American Jewry.--Norbert M. Samuelson "Temple
University"
The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion is Mordecai M. Kaplan
at his best. A classic of clear thinking from this giant of
American Jewish thought, this volume will transform the way you
think about symbols and ritual.--David A. Teutsch
"Reconstructionist Rabbinical College"
Without a doubt the second most important book Kaplan wrote after
Judaism as a Civilization, and no less relevant than that book to
present concerns. Here Kaplan enlarges on his notion of functional
reinterpretation and then actually applies it to the entire ritual
cycle of the Jewish year-a rarity in modern Jewish thought.--Arnold
Eisen "Stanford University"
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