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Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century
A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan

Mel Scult 		1. From Motl to Maurice to Mordecai
2. Beginnings: Graduate School and the First Pulpit
3. Mixed Emotions: Felix Adler and Moshe Sebulun Margolies
4. The Public Arena: Schecter and Benderly
5. Into the Community: The 92nd Street Y and Collective Consciousness
6. The Quest for Community: The Jewish Center
7. A New Denomination: The Society for Jewish Renascence
8. The World as a Classroom: The Jewish Theological Seminary
9. Torah and Salvation: Interpreting the Bible
10. The Centrality of Ethics: The Society for the Advancement of Judaism
11. Spiritualized Intelligence: Living and Praying at the SAJ
12. Religious Nationalism: Weizmann and the Zionist Organization of America
13. The Climax: Judaism as a Civilization and After
 		Mel Scult is a professor emeritus of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College and a professor emeritus of history at City University of New York, Graduate Center.
 
American Jewish Civilization Series

$44.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2279-4
$21.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-2280-8

436 pages

1993