The Rise of Reform Judaism
eBook - ePub

The Rise of Reform Judaism

A Sourcebook of Its European Origins

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Rise of Reform Judaism

A Sourcebook of Its European Origins

About this book

This fiftieth anniversary edition of W. Gunther Plaut's classic volume on the beginnings of the Jewish Reform Movement is updated with a new introduction by Howard A. Berman. The Rise of Reform Judaism covers the first one hundred years of the movement, from the time of the eighteenth-century Jewish Enlightenment leader Moses Mendelssohn to the conclusion of the Augsburg synod in 1871.

In these pages the founders who established liberal Judaism speak for themselves through their journals and pamphlets, books and sermons, petitions and resolutions, and public arguments and disputations. Each selection includes Plaut's brief introduction and sketch of the reformer. Important topics within Judaism are addressed in these writings: philosophy and theology, religious practice, synagogue services, and personal life, as well as controversies on the permissibility of organ music, the introduction of the sermon, the nature of circumcision, the observance of the Sabbath, the rights of women, and the authenticity of the Bible.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Edition by Howard A. Berman
  7. Foreword by Solomon B. Freehof
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter I: Trail Blazers
  10. Chapter II: New Temples, New Prayer Books
  11. Chapter III: The Great ControversyTiktin Vs. Geiger
  12. Chapter IV: Conferences and Synods
  13. Chapter V: New Patterns of Thought
  14. Chapter VI: A People and its Faith
  15. Chapter VII: Worship Reform
  16. Chapter VIII: Sabbath and Holiday Observance
  17. Chapter IX: The Personal Life
  18. Chapter X: The Community
  19. Bibliographical Notes
  20. Index
  21. Back Cover