The American Rabbinate
Author : Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780881250763
Author : Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780881250763
Author : Bruce L. Ruben
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814336671
Explores the life and thought of Rabbi Max Lilienthal, who created a new model for the American rabbinate. When Congregation Bene Israel hired him to come to Cincinnati in 1854, Rabbi Max Lilienthal (1814–82) seized the opportunity to work with his friend Isaac M. Wise. Together, Lilienthal and Wise forged the institutional foundations for the American Reform movement: the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and Hebrew Union College. In Max Lilienthal: The Making of the American Rabbinate, author Bruce L. Ruben investigates the central role Lilienthal played in creating new institutions and leadership models to bring his immigrant community into the mainstream of American society. Ruben’s biography shines a light on this prominent rabbi and educator who is treated by most American Jewish historians as, at best, Wise’s collaborator. Ruben examines Lilienthal’s early career, including how his fervent Haskalah ideology was shaped by tensions within early nineteenth-century German Jewish society and how he tried to implement that ideology in his attempt to modernize Russian Jewish education. After he immigrated to America to serve three traditional New York German synagogues, he clashed with lay leadership. Ruben examines this lay-clergy power struggle and how Lilienthal resolved it over his long career. Max Lilienthal: The Making of the American Rabbinate also details the rabbi’s many accomplishments, including his creation of a nationally recognized private Jewish school and the founding of the precursor to the Central Conference of American Rabbis. He also was the first rabbi to preach in a Christian church. Even more significantly, Ruben argues that Lilienthal created an unprecedented new American model for the rabbinate, in which the rabbi played a prominent role in civic life. More than a biography, this volume is a case study of the impact of American culture on Judaism and its leadership, as Ruben shows how Lilienthal embraced an increasingly radical Reform ideology influenced by a mixture of American and European ideas. Students of German Haskalah and historians of American Judaism and the Reform movement will appreciate this biography that fills an important gap in the history of American Jewry.
Author : David J. Zucker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532653247
This book is a broad-brush approach describing the realities of life in the American rabbinate. Factual portrayals are supplemented by examples drawn from fiction—primarily novels and short stories. Chapters include: ♣Rabbinic Training ♣Congregational Rabbis and Their Communities ♣Congregants’ Views of Their Rabbis ♣Women Rabbis [also including examples from TV and Cinema] ♣Assimilation, Intermarriage, Patrilineality, and Human Sexuality ♣God, Israel, and Tradition This book draws upon sociological data, including the recent Pew Research Center survey on Jewish life in America, and presents a contemporary view of rabbis and their communities. The realities of the American rabbinate are then compared/contrasted with the ways fiction writers present their understanding of rabbinic life. The book explores illustrations from two hundred novels, short stories, and TV/cinema; representing well over 135 authors. From the first real-life women rabbis in the early 1970s to today’s statistics of close to 1,600 women rabbis worldwide, major changes have taken place. Women rabbis are transforming the face of Judaism. For example, this newly revised second edition of American Rabbis: Facts and Fiction reflects a fivefold increase in terms of examples of fictional women rabbis, from when the book was first published in 1998. There is new and expanded material on some of the challenges in the twenty-first century, women rabbis, human sexuality/LGBTQ matters, trans/post/non-denominational seminaries, and community-based rabbis.
Author : American Jewish Archives
Publisher :
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Rabbis
ISBN :
Author : Naomi W. Cohen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2008-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814716881
"From all the evidence presented, the congregational rabbi emerges as a pioneer, the leader of a congregation, as well as spokesman for the Jews in the larger society, forging an independence from his European counterparts and laboring for the preservation of the Jewish faith and heritage in an unfamiliar environment."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Rabbi Lance J. Sussman Ph.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1669877892
In short, I believe, a little bit of religion is a good thing whether or not you fully embrace the idea of God. I believe that Judaism should accept this approach and help its adherents translate their deep, inherent religious needs with the symbols and practices of our ancient tradition. Judaism understands that not only does it have to adapt as part of its cultural dance, but it also has to choose and to create in order to complete its mission: to help modern Jews, the children of Spinoza, and the disciples of Einstein, to stay on course, to see the poetry written into the cosmos, and to help one another on the road to contentment with kindness, with concern and with love. Every once in a while, somebody comes to me and says: “Rabbi, I’m so glad I’m Jewish.” “Rabbi, I’m lucky. I have what I need. I have what I want.” And I smile and count my blessings, too.
Author : Central Conference of American Rabbis
Publisher :
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 36,76 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Jews
ISBN :
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Author : Steven T. Katz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 1997-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814746936
A collection of 11 original essays intended to complement a coincident anthology of Agus' (1911-86) writings. They consider him as a student of modern Jewish philosophy and of medieval Jewish philosophy and mysticism, and as a pulpit rebel. Other perspectives include the Jewish-Christian dialogue, his ideology of American Judaism, the conservative movement, and Jewish law as standards. Also includes a personal portrait. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Samuel C. Heilman
Publisher :
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Rabbis
ISBN :
Author : Central Conference of American Rabbis
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Jews
ISBN :