Select Profiles of Judaic Thinkers in America

It is not easy to choose eight women and men who are representative of the many thinkers that have made significant contributions to Judaism in America, as there are obviously a large number who might have been included. Having discussed briefly two seminal Modern Orthodox thinkers in chapter 3 (Rab...

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Published inJudaism in America p. 135
Main Author Raphael, Marc Lee
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Columbia University Press 20.12.2005
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Anthropology
Applied arts
Architecture
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Bible
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Christian philosophy
Christianity
Clergy
Ecclesiology
Ethnic groups
Ethnography
Ethnology
Ethnoreligious groups
Historical methodology
Historiography
History
History of religion
History of the Americas
Institutional buildings
Jewish history
Jewish peoples
Jewish studies
Judaism
Practical theology
Rabbis
Religion
Religion: general
Religious buildings
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Sacred texts
Seminary
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Spiritual leaders
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Torah
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Summary:It is not easy to choose eight women and men who are representative of the many thinkers that have made significant contributions to Judaism in America, as there are obviously a large number who might have been included. Having discussed briefly two seminal Modern Orthodox thinkers in chapter 3 (Rabbi Leo Jung and the Rav, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik), I thus chose two persons from Conservative Judaism (Abraham Joshua Heschel and Solomon Schechter), arguably the branch that has made the most profound contributions to Judaic thought in America; one each from Reconstructionist (Mordecai M. Kaplan), Reform (Isaac Mayer Wise), and ultra-Orthodox
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