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Kimmy Caplan. Orthodoxy in the New World: Immigrant Rabbis and Preaching in America (1881-1924). Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2002. 395 pp. (Hebrew)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2004
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In the concluding pages of Kimmy Caplan's book, the author asks his ultimate question: “Did the Immigrant rabbis and preachers succeed?” (p. 312) To achieve success, in the eyes of Caplan, is to stimulate an emotionally charged response or to generate a change in perspective or action.
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