Book Summary
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.
Book Details
| Book Name | Witness From The Pulpit: Topical Sermons, 1933-1980 |
| Author | Harold I. Saperstein, Marc Saperstein |
| Publisher | Lexington Books (Apr 2001) |
| ISBN | 9780739102596 |
| Pages | 384 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1138 |
