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Rabbi Max Heller : reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malone, Barbara S.
- Series:
- Judaic Studies Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heller, Max, 1860-1929.
- Jews--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- New Orleans (La.)--Ethnic relations.
- Rabbis--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.
- Reform Judaism--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Temple Sinai (New Orleans, La.).
- Rabbis--Biography--New Orleans--Louisiana.
- Rabbis.
- Jews.
- Reform Judaism--History--New Orleans--Louisiana.
- Reform Judaism.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Heller, Max.
- Local Subjects:
- Heller, Max, 1860-1929.
- Jews--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- New Orleans (La.)--Ethnic relations.
- Rabbis--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.
- Reform Judaism--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Temple Sinai (New Orleans, La.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This biography of a pioneering Zionist and leader of American Reform Judaism adds significantly to our understanding of American and southern Jewish history. Max Heller was a man of both passionate conviction and inner contradiction. He sought to be at the center of current affairs, not as a spokesperson of centrist opinion, but as an agitator or mediator, constantly struggling to find an acceptable path as he confronted the major issues of the day--racism and Jewish emancipation in eastern Europe, nationalism and nativism, immigration and assimilation. Heller's life experien
- Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1. From Jewish Prague to Chicago, 1860-1879; 2. Acquiring the Tools of Americanization, 1879-1884; 3. Initiating a Rabbinical Career: From Cincinnati to New Orleans, 1884-1887; 4. Southernization, Self-Righteousness, Nativism, and Social Reform: New Orleans, 1887-1891; 5. Dimensions of Leadership: Reformer, Traditionalist, Activist, and Dissenter, 1891-1897; 6. ""How Shall We Stand Unswayed in the Storm?"" Confronting the Rising Currents of Racialism; 7. Zionism as ""Our Salvation""; 8. Mandate for ""Moral Courage: American Ideals in the Light of Judaism""
- 9. ""The Zenith of My Career""10. The Legacy of a Righteous Life; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8735-8
- 0-585-22193-6
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