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Daniel J. Elazar and Rela Mintz Geffen. The Conservative Movement in Judaism: Dilemmas and Opportunities. SUNY Series in American Jewish Society in the 1990s. Albany: SUNY Press, 2000. xiv, 238 pp.; Michael B. Greenbaum. Louis Finkelstein and the Conservative Movement: Conflict and Growth. Academic Studies in the History of Judaism. Binghamton, NY: Global Studies, 2001. xv, 308 pp.; Mordecai M. Kaplan. Communings of the Spirit: The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan. Volume 1, 1913–1934. Edited by Mel Scult. American Jewish Civilization Series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press and the Reconstructionist Press, 2001. 558 pp.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2004
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Much has been, and continues to be, written about the Conservative movement and its impact upon both American Judaism and world Jewry. Such works differ widely in scope and emphasis. The three recently published volumes under review serve to exemplify such diversity. One examines the movement in its entirety, concentrating on the present, primarily from a sociological perspective; the others focus more on history, illuminating in different ways the roles of two of the most influential figures in Conservative Judaism in the past.
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