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Communings of the Spirit - The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Volume 2: 1934 - 1941 (Hardcover)
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Communings of the Spirit - The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Volume 2: 1934 - 1941 (Hardcover)
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Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism, is
the preeminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi of our times. His
life embodies the American Jewish experience of the first half of
the twentieth century. With passionate intensity and uncommon
candor, Kaplan compulsively recorded his experience in his
journals, some ten thousand pages. At times, Kaplan thought his
ideas were too radical or complex to share with his congregation,
and what he could not share publicly he put into his journals. In
this diary we find his uncensored thoughts on a variety of
subjects. Thus, the diary was much more sophisticated and radical
than anything he published while living. While in the first volume
of Communings of the Spirit, editor Mel Scult covers Kaplan's early
years as a rabbi, teacher of rabbis, and community leader, in the
second volume we experience through Kaplan the economic problems of
the thirties and their shattering impact on the Jewish community.
It becomes clear that Kaplan, like so many others during this
period, was attracted to the solutions offered by communism,
notwithstanding some hesitation because of the anti-religiousnature
of communist ideology. Through Kaplan we come to understand the
Jewish community in the yishuv (Jews in Palestine) as Kaplan spent
two years teaching at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his
close circle of friends included Martin Buber, Judah Leon Magnes,
and other prominent personalities. It is also during this time that
the specter of Nazi Germany begins to haunt American Jews, and
Kaplan, sensitive to the threats, is obsessed with Jewish security,
both in Europe and Palestine. More than anything else, this diary
is the chronicle of Kaplan's spiritual and intellectual journey in
the early 1930s and 1940s. With honesty and vivid detail,Kaplan
explores his evolving beliefs on religious naturalism and his
uncertainties and self-doubts as he grapples with a wide range of
theological issues.
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