The Rise of Reform Judaism – A Sourcebook of Its European Origins Plaut Freehof

The Rise of Reform JudaismA Sourcebook of Its European Origins\nAuthor(s): W. Gunther Plaut, Solomon B. Freehof, Howard A. Berman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Jewish Publication Society, United States\nImprint: Jewish Publication Society\nISBN-13: 9780827612167, 978-0827612167\nSynopsis\nThis fiftieth anniversary edition of W. Gunther Plaut's classic volume on the beginnings of the Jewish Reform Movement is updated with a new introduction by Howard A. Berman. The Rise of Reform Judaism covers the first one hundred years of the movement, from the time of the eighteenth-century Jewish Enlightenment leader Moses Mendelssohn to the conclusion of the Augsburg synod in 1871.\n\nIn these pages the founders who established liberal Judaism speak for themselves through their journals and pamphlets, books and sermons, petitions and resolutions, and public arguments and disputations. Each selection includes Plaut's brief introduction and sketch of the reformer. Important topics within Judaism .