Witness from the Pulpit

Harold I. Saperstein; Marc Saperstein

doi:10.5771/9780739162576

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.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 1999
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-0099-8
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-6257-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 365
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface, by Emanuel Rackman No access
3. Foreword, by David Saperstein No access
Introduction, by Marc Saperstein No access Pages 1 - 18
1. Nazi Nationalism, 1933 No access Pages 19 - 28
2. Are We Civilized?, 1933 No access Pages 29 - 36
3. The Call to Battle, 1934 No access Pages 37 - 43
4. The Great Olympic Idea, 1935 No access Pages 44 - 49
5. Must There Be War?, 1936 No access Pages 50 - 55
6. Can Jews Afford to Be Pacifists?, 1937 No access Pages 56 - 61
7. Return to Thy People, 1938 No access Pages 62 - 67
8. Unconquered, 1939 No access Pages 68 - 74
9. The World We Make (Introduction), 1940 Sufferance Is the Badge, 1940 No access Pages 75 - 82
10. Undying Fires, 1941 No access Pages 83 - 89
11. The Mount of Sacrifice, 1942 No access Pages 90 - 95
12. What Have We Jews to Be Thankful For?, 1942 No access Pages 96 - 101
13. Farewell, 1943 No access Pages 102 - 105
14. The Call of the Shofar, 1944 No access Pages 106 - 109
15. The Voice of Joy and Gladness, 1945 No access Pages 110 - 117
16. A Jewish Veteran Returns, 1946 No access Pages 118 - 122
17. Passover-For Our Day, 1946 No access Pages 123 - 127
18. The Resistance Movement in Palestine, 1946 No access Pages 128 - 134
19. Thieves in the Night, 1947 No access Pages 135 - 140
20. Israel and Us, 1948 No access Pages 141 - 146
21. A Prince in Israel, 1949 No access Pages 147 - 153
22. Outside the Law, 1949 No access Pages 154 - 158
23. The Chains of the Messiah, 1950 No access Pages 159 - 164
24. Birth of a Nation, 1951 No access Pages 165 - 169
25. "I Lift My Lamp," 1952 No access Pages 170 - 174
26. The Fruits of Sacrifice, 1953 No access Pages 175 - 179
27. Promise and Fulfillment, 1954 No access Pages 180 - 185
28. How Leadership Fails, 1957 No access Pages 186 - 193
29. Message from the Movies, 1958 No access Pages 194 - 199
30. Jewish Life Behind the Iron Curtain, 1959 No access Pages 200 - 205
31. Moral Issues of the Eichmann Case, 1961 No access Pages 206 - 211
32. New Frontiers in Catholic-Jewish Relationships, 1962 No access Pages 212 - 217
33. The American Dream, In Color, 1963 No access Pages 218 - 225
34. Martyr for the American Dream, 1963 No access Pages 226 - 229
35. "The Deputy"-Where Does the Guilt Lie?, 1964 No access Pages 230 - 237
36. The War on Poverty, 1965 No access Pages 238 - 243
37. On the Freedom Trail in Alabama, 1965 No access Pages 244 - 251
38. The Dilemma of Vietnam, 1966 No access Pages 252 - 258
39. A Great Miracle Happened There, 1967 No access Pages 259 - 266
40. An American Tragedy, 1968 No access Pages 267 - 272
41. Portnoy's Complaint, And Mine, 1969 No access Pages 273 - 278
42. The Ordeal of Soviet Jewry, 1970 No access Pages 279 - 284
43. Dissent-Jewish Style, 1971 No access Pages 285 - 291
44. Keepers of the Keys, 1972 No access Pages 292 - 298
45. The War of the Day of Judgment, 1973 No access Pages 299 - 303
46. Slaughter of the Innocent, 1974 No access Pages 304 - 309
47. How My Mind Has Changed, 1975 No access Pages 310 - 315
48. The Dream Shattered, 1975 No access Pages 316 - 321
49. The Harvest of '77, 1977 No access Pages 322 - 328
50. Jonestown and Masada, 1978 No access Pages 329 - 333
51. Farewell to the "Me Decade," 1980 No access Pages 334 - 339
52. Days I Remember, 1973 No access Pages 340 - 346
Index No access Pages 347 - 365