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Publication of this journal is made possible, in part, by gifts from Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York and by the Dolores and Walter Neustadt American Jewish Archives Journal endowment fund. ii • American Jewish Archives Journal The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives Located on the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew union College–Jewish Institute of Religion Cincinnati • New York • Los Angeles • Jerusalem Dr. David Ellenson, President On the cover: Ararat (now known as Grand Island) in 1825. From Robert M. Palmer, Palmer’s Views of Buffalo Past and Present (Buffalo: Smith, Davis & Co., 1911), p. 8. In the background are portions of M.M. Noah’s speech as it appeared in The New York Evening Post (Saturday, 24 September 1825). The American Jewish Archives Journal is indexed in the Index to Jewish Periodicals, Current Contents, American Historical Review, United States Political Science Documents, and the Journal of American History. Information for Contributors: The American Jewish Archives Journal generally follows The Chicago Manual of Style (15th Edition) but issues its own style sheet, which may be accessed by visiting the American Jewish Archives website at: www.AmericanJewishArchives.org ISSN 002-905X © 2010 by The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
To Our Readers CONTENTS Gary P. Zola, Editor pp. ix–xiii Articles “Revive, Renew, and Reestablish”: Mordecai Noah’s Ararat and the Limits of Biblical Imagination in the Early American Republic Eran Shalev pp. 1–20 On 15 September 1825, Mordecai Manuel Noah proclaimed himself “judge of Israel” in Ararat, a planned Hebrew city of refuge on the Niagara River in upstate New York. Originally hailed as an event in American constitutional and intellectual history, Noah’s scheme enjoyed a grandiose dedication—followed by abject failure. Ararat not only failed to capture the support of European Jews; its very foundation—a Hebrew-biblical state headed by Noah as “judge and governor”—was deemed subversive within the political and legal culture of the young United States. In this article, Shalev shows how, in light of the potent political Hebraism of its time, Ararat delineates the broad yet strict limits of the early American republic’s biblical imagination. The Excommunication of Mordecai Kaplan Zachary Silver pp. 21–48 In June of 1945, a group of rabbis gathered in New York to burn the prayer book of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan. This extreme measure was part of the formal excommunication ceremony for Kaplan, who would go on to become the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism. Just one month after the Allies declared victory over the Nazis, in a country wrestling with definitions of its freedom, Agudat HaRabbanim burned a religious book to express its disgust with how an individual expressed his philosophy. Silver explores the particulars of the excommunication, responses to it, and the cultural context of postwar American Judaism. Volume LXII Number 1 • iii
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