By W. Gunther Plaut,Jacob K Shankman,Howard A. Berman
This 50th anniversary variation of W. Gunther Plaut’s vintage moment quantity at the background of the Jewish Reform circulation is a sourcebook of the unique writings that formed the second one century of prepared liberal Judaism. The progress of Reform Judaism includes a new advent, a brand new epilogue, and demanding extra fundamental resources documenting the profound adjustments of the final fifty years.
Although the emphasis during this quantity is mainly at the American scene, the place the stream had its such a lot impressive advances, choices of consultant liberal Jewish concept in Europe and to a lesser measure in Israel are integrated in addition. those choices aid us to appreciate the emergence and personality, difficulties and tensions of Reform Judaism because it constructed and grew nowa days. as well as the first texts new to this variation, David Ellenson’s epilogue considers the advancements of the final fifty years that experience endured to form the process Reform Judaism.
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