Download or read book Dynamic Judaism written by Mordecai Menahem Kaplan and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mordecai M. Kaplan began his life's journey with the confines of a small Lithuanian town on the outskirts of Vilna. He was born on a Friday evening in June of 1881. Kaplan's submergence in a total Jewish atmosphere is illustrated by the fact that he knew his day of birth only by the Jewish calendar until he went to the New York Public Library as a young man to look up the corresponding date. Kaplan's family was a traditional one in every aspect, and his father, Israel Kaplan, was a learned man.