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Name: Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
Birth Date: June 11, 1881
Death Date: November 8, 1983
Place of Birth: Swenziany, Lithuania
Place of Death: New York, New York
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: theologian, educator

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Biography of Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
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Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (1881-1983), American Jewish theologian and educator, was the founder and leader of the Reconstructionist movement in American Judaism. Mordecai Kaplan was born on June 11, 1881, in Swenziany, Lithuania, and emigrated to the...


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Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem
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(born June 11, 1881, &Shacek;ven&csubdot;ionys, Lithu.—died Nov. 8, 1983, New York, N.Y., U.S.) Lithuanian-born U.S. theologian. He came to the U.S. with his family in 1889. Ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary, he later taught there for...
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Kaplan, Mordecai : Judaic Terms
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(1881–1983) Founder of the *Reconstructionist movement. Kaplan believed *Judaism to be ‘an evolving religious civilization’. His best-known book was Judaism as a Civilization (1934). (See...
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Kaplan, Mordecai : Judaism Terms
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See RECONSTRUCTIONIST...
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Mordecai Kaplan Information
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Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881–November 8, 1983) was a rabbi and the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism. Kaplan was born in Lithuania and was ordained as a rabbi at Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York City in 1902. Kaplan began his...
 


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A Peek Into the Despairing, Buoyant Soul of Mordecai Kaplan, Part II
06/01/2001: 1,259 words, approx. 4 pages
Scult, Mel Forward 06-01-2001 A Peek Into the Despairing, Buoyant Soul of Mordecai Kaplan, Part II By MEL SCULT Mr. Scult is the editor of the forthcoming "Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Volume 1: 1913-1934," edited...
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American Jewish History
A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism.(Review) (book review)
12/01/1999: 1,763 words, approx. 6 pages
A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism. By Jeffrey S. Gurock and Jacob J. Schacter. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. x + 220 pp. A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan,...
 


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