Mordecai Kaplan publishes Judaism as a Civilization, arguing that Judaism is an evolving religious civilization and that Judaism's ideas must be reconstructed for modern life; the book founds Reconstructionist Judaism. Stream milestone.
Tagged: Jewish Reconstructionist Judaism
The Event
- Date
- 1934 (exact)
- Era
- Contemporary; Standard periodization of Jewish history
- Location
- New York; today New York, USA
- Traditions
- Judaism
- Streams
- Reconstructionist Judaism
- Key figures
- Mordecai Kaplan
- Key texts
- Judaism as a Civilization (1934)
Primary Sources
- Mordecai Kaplan, Judaism as a Civilization
Secondary Sources
- Scult, Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan (Wayne State, 1993)
Provenance: HIST-0138; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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