WRITER

Mordecai Kaplan

1881 - 1983

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Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881 – November 8, 1983) was an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian, philosopher, activist, and religious leader who founded the Reconstructionist movement of Judaism along with his son-in-law Ira Eisenstein. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mordecai Kaplan has received more than 276,676 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Mordecai Kaplan is the 4,603rd most popular writer (down from 4,351st in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 129th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Lithuanian Writer.

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  • 48.70

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.44

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  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The meaning of God in modern Jewish religion
Judaism, God, Reconstructionist Judaism
1937
Judaism as a civilization
Jews, Reconstructionist Judaism, Politics and government
1934
Hitpatḥuto shel ha-tahalikh ha-ḥinukhi
Education
1937
Communings of the spirit
Judaism, Diaries, Rabbis
2001
The religion of ethical nationhood
Judaism
1970
Dynamic Judaism
Judaism, Reconstructionist Judaism
1985

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mordecai Kaplan ranks 4,603 out of 7,302. Before him are Saint-Pol-Roux, Linn Ullmann, Camille Paglia, Wang Guowei, Rodolfo Walsh, and Hans Nielsen Hauge. After him are Lalleshwari, Yambo Ouologuem, Hilde Domin, Gilbert Adair, Karl von Holtei, and Walter Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Mordecai Kaplan ranks 166. Before him are Fernand Sanz, Otto Toeplitz, Lewis Fry Richardson, Jetze Doorman, Madge Syers, and Harry Edwin Wood. After him are Abdulla Shaig, Patrick Ryan, Benjamin Jekhowsky, Francis Ford, Tommy Burns, and Walter Krueger. Among people deceased in 1983, Mordecai Kaplan ranks 165. Before him are Neil Ritchie, Diego Abad de Santillán, Gyula Illyés, Marguerite Broquedis, Chabuca Granda, and Gyula Lázár. After him are Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Otto Heckmann, Jaime Lazcano, Alfonso Calzolari, Choi Chung-min, and Fyodor Abramov.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Mordecai Kaplan ranks 142 out of 328. Before him are Stanisław Narutowicz (1862), Źmitrok Biadula (1886), Artūras Paulauskas (1953), Władysław Komar (1940), Jonas Kazlauskas (1954), and Regimantas Adomaitis (1937). After him are Šarūnas Marčiulionis (1964), Remigijus Valiulis (1958), Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius (1882), Cornell Borchers (1925), Henryk Gulbinowicz (1923), and Kārlis Zāle (1888).

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Among WRITERS In Lithuania

Among writers born in Lithuania, Mordecai Kaplan ranks 17. Before him are Osip Senkovsky (1800), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), Antanas Baranauskas (1835), Žemaitė (1845), Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873), and Źmitrok Biadula (1886). After him are Mikalojus Daukša (1527), Georgy Ivanov (1894), Petras Cvirka (1909), Jurga Ivanauskaitė (1961), Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna (1892), and Sigitas Geda (1943).

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