Professor Emanuel S. Goldsmith Professor of Hebrew. Ph.D., Brandeis, Rabbinical
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| Emanuel S. Goldsmith is Professor of Yiddish and Jewish Studies and Rabbi of Congregation M'vakshe Derech in Scarsdale, NY. He has lectured widely on modern Jewish literature and thought, and is a recognized authority on the writings of Mordecai M. Kaplan, having co-edited both The American Judaism of Mordecai Kaplan and Dynamic Judaism: The Essential Writings of Mordecai Kaplan. He has also written the essay on Kaplan in the forthcoming Dictionary of Modern American Philosophy. His other publications include Thinkers and Teachers of Modern Judaism and Events and Movements in Modern Judaism. On the subject of Yiddish literature, his signal contributions include Modern Yiddish Culture: The Story of the Yiddish Language Movement and the two-volume anthology Yiddish Literature in America 1980-2000 (in Yiddish). |
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Emanuel S. Goldsmith's book was a pioneering achievement in modern Jewish scholarship. It was the first history of the Yiddishist movement. In one master stroke, it enabled the bold, open-minded reader to overcome the myriad prejudices and misconceptions that continue to misguide popular notions about Yiddish and the Yiddish language movement. Now the historians of events, and (especially) the historians of ideas are supposed to maintain a studious "distance" from their material. That Professor Goldsmith did in the two incarnations of this splendid book. Still, the highly charged nature of the relevant controversies, and the ongoing heated debate about them, left readers wondering: And what does Professor Goldsmith say? In addition to his professorial persona at Queens College, he is after all an eminent Reconstructionist rabbi and a beloved writer and lecturer on Jewish thought. David Katz
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The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan - Edited by Emanuel S. Goldsmith, Mel Scult and Robert M. Seltze |
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Dynamic Judaism - The Essential Writings of Mordecai M. Kaplan - Edited by Emanuel S. Goldsmith and Mel Scult |
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Confluence of Spiritual and Poetic Quests in the writings of H. Leivick - by Emanuel S. Goldsmith |
