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Judaism as a Civilization : Toward a Reconstruction of American-Jewish Life.
Title:
Judaism as a Civilization : Toward a Reconstruction of American-Jewish Life.
Author:
Kaplan, Mordecai.
ISBN:
9780827610507
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1 online resource (661 pages)
Contents:
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 -- VI. Environmental Factors of Conservation -- C. 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 -- XV. Constituent Elements of Judaism as a Civilization -- XVI. 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 -- XXIV. The Folk Aspect of the Jewish Religion -- XXV. 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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