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Re•con•struc•tion•ism
(rē′kən struk′shə niz′əm),USA pronunciation n.
- Judaisma 20th-century movement among U.S. Jews, founded by Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, advocating that Judaism, being a culture and way of life as well as a religion, is in sum a religious civilization requiring constant adaptation to contemporary conditions so that Jews can identify more readily and meaningfully with the Jewish community.
- Reconstruction + -ism 1940–45
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