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More unfinished business
- Title
- More unfinished business / W. Gunther Plaut.
- Author
- Plaut, W. Gunther, 1912-2012.
- Publication
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [1997], ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BM755.P62 A38 1997g | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 306 pages : portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- More Unfinished Business is a companion to Rabbi Plaut's 1981 memoir, Unfinished Business, offering readers his reflections on the unfolding of his life and work during the past two decades.
- This is a book of doings and musings rather than a detailed analysis of events. Plaut considers how the events and issues he was involved with forced him to confront and reassess his life's work, his religious, institutional, and political commitments. To understand this process, the reader is invited to consider something of the private man behind the events. It is this effort to reveal himself as a person, rather than as an actor in history, that gives added meaning to his reminiscences.
- He discusses a broad range of concerns and involvements - wrestling with prayer, the future of Judaism, ageing and mortality, parting with material possessions, even his passion for tennis.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. The Common Weal. Ch. 1. On Ageing and Obsolescence. Ch. 2. The Boat Is Full: Refugees at the Gate. Ch. 3. Canadian Mosaic. Ch. 4. Human Rights: Sitting in Judgment -- Pt. 2. Living as a Jew. Ch. 5. Israel: Love's Ambiguities. Ch. 6. Israel: Rabin and After. Ch. 7. Communal Concerns. Ch. 8. Reform Judaism: A Personal Journey. Ch. 9. Reform Judaism in Search of Self -- Pt. 3. At Home and Broad. Ch. 10. Magnum Opus. Ch. 11. Books, et cetera. Ch. 12. Travels in Space and Time -- Pt. 4. Personal Perspectives. Ch. 13. The Mutti Phenomenon. Ch. 14. Letting Go. Ch. 15. Faith, Family, and Future. App. A. Two Letters That Saved My Life -- App. B. A Missed Opportunity.
- ISBN
- 0802008887
- LCCN
- cn 97931093
- OCLC
- ocm36990649
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries