Communings of the Spirit

• Paperback | Engels | American Jewish Civilization
• Mordecai Kaplan's personal reactions to the events of the 1940s. Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism and the rabbi who initia... Lees meer

Homosexuality and Christian Community

• Paperback | Engels | American Jewish Civilization
• Contributors to this volume, all members of the Princeton Theological Seminary faculty, address the various exegetical, interpretive, and practical is... Lees meer

Rebecca Gratz

Dianne Ashton

• Paperback | Engels | American Jewish Civilization
• This is the first in-depth biography of Rebecca Gratz (1781-1869), the foremost American Jewish woman of the nineteenth century. Perhaps the best-know... Lees meer

The Forerunners

Robert P Swierenga

• Paperback | Engels | American Jewish Civilization
• Between 1800 and 1880 approximately 6500 Dutch Jews immigrated to the United States to join the hundreds who had come during the colonial era. Althoug... Lees meer

Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century

Mel Scult

• Paperback | Engels | American Jewish Civilization
• Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century is the first critical examination of the early life of Mordecai M. Kaplan--the sources of his inspiration, the evo... Lees meer

Envisioning Israel

• Paperback | Engels | American Jewish Civilization
• Envisioning Israel examines the deeply entwined yet often problematic historical relationship between American Jewry and the Jewish community in Israe... Lees meer

Communings of the Spirit

• Hardcover | Engels | American Jewish Civilization
• Selections from the diary of Mordecai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionism in America, detailing a provocative firsthand account of Jewish life in Ame... Lees meer

Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism

Lance J Sussman

• Hardcover | Engels | American Jewish Civilization
• This illuminating biography of Isaac Leeser reconstructs his personal struggles, pioneer efforts on behalf of American Judaism, and visions of a viabl... Lees meer

Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush

• Hardcover | Engels | American Jewish Civilization
• A history of the founding of California's Jewish community during the Gold Rush. In 1848, news of the California Gold Rush swept the nation and the wo... Lees meer

Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939

Daniel Soyer

• Paperback | Engels | American Jewish Civilization
• Landsmanshaftn, associations of immigrants from the same hometown, became the most popular form of organization among Eastern European Jewish immigran... Lees meer

Communings of the Spirit

Mordecai M Kaplan

• Paperback | Engels | American Jewish Civilization
• Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism, is the preeminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi of our times. His life embodies the ... Lees meer

Communings of the Spirit

• Hardcover | Engels | American Jewish Civilization
• Mordecai Kaplan's personal reactions to the events of the 1940s. Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism and the rabbi who initia... Lees meer

Going Greek

Marianne R Sanua

• Paperback | Engels | American Jewish Civilization
• Going Greek offers an unprecedented look at the relationship between American Jewish students and fraternity life during its heyday in the first half ... Lees meer