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Kaplan, Mordecai (1881–1983)

DOI
10.4324/9780415249126-J044-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-J044-1
Version: v1,  Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 29, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/kaplan-mordecai-1881-1983/v-1

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Kaplan argued that Judaism was the evolving religious civilization of the Jewish people. He attempted to recast an inherited faith in rational and natural terms. His advocacy of Jewish communalism, Jewish cultural expression in literature and art, and creativity and experimentation in liturgy had a pronounced impact on wide circles of US Jews. He took seriously the challenge to the traditional interpretation of religious values from science and modernity, and sought to establish a form of religion that was both intellectually respectable and communally responsible. Kaplan’s distinctive analysis of Jewish peoplehood and the Jewish religion responsed to a wide variety of philosophical and theological perspectives and challenges.

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Ellenson, David. Kaplan, Mordecai (1881–1983), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-J044-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/kaplan-mordecai-1881-1983/v-1.
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