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Judaism as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American-Jewish Life
AuthorMordecai M. Kaplan
Cover artistJanet Halverson
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectJudaism, Sociology of Jewry
GenreReligion
Published1934 (The Macmillan Company), 1967 (Shocken Books)
Media typePrint
Pages601 pages (1967 edition)
ISBN978-1330267707

Judaism as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American-Jewish Life is a 1934 work on Judaism and American Jewish life by Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism.

The book is Kaplan's most notable work and has influenced a number of American Jewish thinkers. Kaplan's work centers around the concept that Judaism ought not to be defined as the religion of the Jews, but the sum of Jewish religion, culture, language, literature and social organization.

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