Lily Montagu and the Advancement of Liberal Judaism From Vision to Vocation

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Pages:283
ISBN:0-88946-537-1
978-0-88946-537-4
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The first critical study of the founder of the movement of Liberal Judaism in Great Britain and of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.

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"The author very effectively helps us to see Lily Montagu within the context of the position of the Jewish woman in modern times . . . . can be read with profit by the undergraduate and the general reader. It will of course be of special interest to students of women's history and Anglo-Jewish history." - Choice "[a] pioneering study . . . fluid style and painstaking scholarship . . . ." - Religious Studies Review

". . . a biography of an important early-twentieth-century leader of Liberal Judaism in England. . . . traces the cultural currents within which Post-Enlightenment Jews - especially female English Jews - swam. . . . Students of liberal Judaism in general and Anglo-Jewry in particular will find this book indispensable." - Sh'ma

"Students of Anglo Jewry, Reform Judaism, and women's history should welcome [this book]." - Judaica ". . . une très utile contribution à la compréhension du judaïsme réformé comme réponse au défi de la modernité et de la sécularisation." - Justicatif

"We are indebted to Ellen Umansky for doggedly searching for Montagu's papers . . . and for bringing this pioneer to our attention." - Margaret Moers Wenig ". . . provocative and carefully researched . . . ." - American Jewish Archives

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