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With passionate intensity and uncommon candour, Kaplan compulsively recorded his experience in his journal (some 10,000 pages). He confided his personal involvements with prominent Jewish leaders such as Chaim Weizmann, Solomon Schechter and Louis Brandeis, and his impressions of key Jewish historical moments such as the founding of the Hebrew University in 1925. We see him wrestling with his concept of God and the problem of evil. In his journal he railed against the pettiness of his congregants and the difficulties of institutional life. But above all he was obsessed by the need to modernize Judaism's traditional religious categories in order to save the Jewish people. His ideal was a functional Judaism that would flourish in an American democratic society. Twenty-seven volumes long, this diary was previously available only to scholars. This first volume of \"\"Communings of the Spirit\"\" covers Kaplan's early years as a rabbi, teacher of rabbis and community leader. Kaplan, who trained rabbis for half a century, gives us an inside picture of life at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the centre of Conservative Judaism in America. He records his masterful weekly sermons, which were attended regularly by his students. With unflinching candour, he reveals his successes and failures, uncertainties and self-doubts. Undeterred by attacks on his radical beliefs, he never wavered in the pursuit of a more dynamic Judaism. \"\"Communings of the Spirit\"\" is a very human document that should interest scholars and students of American Jewish history and culture, as well as the general reader interested in the evolution of Judaism in America.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50416558113041,"sku":"CIN0814325750G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51332945019153,"sku":"CIN0814325750VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0814325750.jpg?v=1751201646"},{"product_id":"judaism-as-a-civilization-book-mordecai-m-kaplan-9780827605299","title":"Judaism as a Civilization","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50898635358481,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50898635522321,"sku":"CIN0827605293A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0827605293.jpg?v=1751011184"},{"product_id":"path-of-the-upright-book-mordecai-m-kaplan-9781568214276","title":"The Path of the Upright","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51165177807121,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51165178954001,"sku":"CIN1568214278G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52120102764817,"sku":"NLS9781568214276","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1568214278.jpg?v=1750830409"},{"product_id":"judaism-as-a-civilization-book-mordecai-m-kaplan-9781774645314","title":"Judaism as a Civilization","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51387298283793,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51387299234065,"sku":"NIN9781774645314","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1774645319.jpg?v=1751059080"},{"product_id":"greater-judaism-in-making-book-mordecai-m-kaplan-9781618111562","title":"The Greater Judaism in Making","description":"Throughout history, Judaism has been under attack by other religions, attacks which strengthened the identification of the group as a whole. 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