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Kaplan, Mordecai Summary
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KAPLAN, MORDECAI (1881–1983), American rabbi, author, and religious leader, was the creator of the theory of Reconstructionist Judaism and the founder of the Reconstructionist movement. The son of Rabbi Israel Kaplan, a Talmudic scholar,...
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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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(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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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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