Witness from the Pulpit: Topical Sermons, 1933-1980 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780739102596)

Harold I. Saperstein served as rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of Lynbrook, N.Y., from 1933 until his retirement in 1980. The specific contours of his career reflect a sustained effort to use the pulpit of this suburban temple to communicate a Jewish perspective based on personal encounters with great issues of the day-including the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust, the civil rights era, the McCarthy era, and other turning points in American history. The fifty-two sermons in this book have been selected, introduced, and annotated by Marc Saperstein, whose award-winning books on the history of Jewish preaching have established him as a leading expert on this subject. No other book illustrates as effectively the value of the sermon as a resource for understanding the challenges faced by American Jews at some of the most dramatic moments in the turbulent history of this century.

Author: Harold I. Saperstein, Marc Saperstein
ISBN-10: 0739102591
ISBN-13: 9780739102596
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 04/27/2001
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.88w x 0.82d