Acknowledgements

We are grateful to our generous funders, without whom this exhibit would not be possible: The Olive Bridge Fund, which supports this exhibit and the Archives’ larger project of making Kaplan’s correspondence accessible online; and the Save America’s Treasures initiative of the National Endowment of the Humanities, which supported the conservation and digitization of 7,000 items of Rabbi Kaplan’s correspondence.

Special thanks to Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., President, Reconstructing Judaism.

Curator:
Erin M. Hess, Archivist, The Ira and Judith Kaplan Eisenstein Reconstructionist Archives, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

Co-curators:
Eric Caplan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Jewish Studies, McGill University.
Reena Sigman Friedman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
Deborah Dash Moore, Ph.D., Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan.
Noam Pianko, Ph.D., Samuel N. Stroum Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.
Mel Scult, Ph.D., Vice President and Secretary, Kaplan Center.  

Additional thanks to Lila Corwin Berman, Susan Berman, Bob Bershad, Miriam Eisenstein, Victoria Guentter, Joel Hecker, Alan LaPayover, Kim Manin, Stephanie Sobel and Jacob Weinberg.

Citations for Content

Photographs
On Home Page
Kaplan with books, taken in Blackstone New York, no year. Reconstructionist Archives, Record Group 1, Record Series 31, Box A.
Kaplan color portrait, no year. Reconstructionist Archives, Record Group 1, Record Series 31, Box B.
Kaplan seated in sunlight, taken May 30, 1934, at 285 Central Park West. Reconstructionist Archives, Record Group 1, Record Series 31, Box B.

On Introduction page
Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, June 1949. Photo by Gedalia Segal. Reconstructionist Archives, Record Group 1, Record Series 31, Box A.

On this page
Kaplan family, Summer 1916, Pavilion Avenue, Long Branch New Jersey. Reconstructionist Archives, Record Group 1, Record Series 31, Box D.

Letters
Letter From Everett Gendler to Mordecai M. Kaplan, May 12, 1963. Reconstructionist Archives, Record Group 1, Record Series 1, Object 1973.02.2692.

Letter From Mordecai H. Lewittes to Mordecai M. Kaplan, February 27, 1936. Reconstructionist Archives, Record Group 1, Record Series 2, Box 35, File 13.

Letter From Nima H. Adlerblum to Mordecai M. Kaplan, September 1934. Reconstructionist Archives, Record Group 1, Record Series 1, Object 1973.02.0187.

Letter From Philip M. Klutznick to Mordecai M. Kaplan, December 17, 1958. Reconstructionist Archives, Record Group 1, Record Series 1, Object 1973.02.4021.

Letter From Stephen S. Wise to Mordecai M. Kaplan, May 31, 1922. Reconstructionist Archives, Record Group 1, Record Series 1, Object 1973.02.6959.

Letter From Louis D. Brandeis to Mordecai M. Kaplan, July 15, 1934. Reconstructionist Archives, Record Group 1, Record Series 2, Box 30, File 38.

Letter From Mordecai M. Kaplan to Selma Kaplan Jaffe, August 9, 1939. Courtesy of Mel Scult.

Letter From Mordecai M. Kaplan to Mel Scult, October 27, 1973. Courtesy of Mel Scult.