On 150 Years: Scholarly Works on the History of Hebrew Union College and the Jewish Institute of Religion

 

Institutional Histories

Michael Meyer headshotHebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion: A Centennial History: 1875-1975

by Michael A. Meyer, Ph.D. and edited by Rabbi Gary P. Zola, Ph.D.
Hebrew Union College Press, 1992.

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We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion (First Edition)

by Rabbi Shirley Idelson, Ph.D.
University Alabama Press, 2002.

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Nelson Glueck: Biblical Archaeologist And President of the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion

by Laurence Kutler, Ph.D. and Rabbi Jonathan M. Brown
Hebrew Union College Press, February 2006.

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The Union for Reform Judaism: 1873-2009: A History According to the Minutes of the Organization, SC-15791

The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Hebrew Union College, Russell Silverman, 2011.

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Michael Meyer headshotResponse to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism

by Michael A. Meyer, Ph.D. ’64
Wayne State University Press, 1995.

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Ayn Zo Aggadah, It is No Dream: A History of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem, 1954-1990

by Rabbi C. Ariel Stone
Rabbinic Thesis at Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, 1990

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Jason Kalman headshotHebrew Union College and the Dead Sea Scrolls

by Jason Kalman, Ph.D.
Hebrew Union College Press, 2012.

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Histories of Programs and Placement

Judah Cohen Headshot“The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment”

by Judah M. Cohen, Ph.D.
Indiana University Press, 2019

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“HUC-JIR’s Decision to Mandate a Year of Study in Israel for Rabbinical Students”

by David Mendelsson, Ph.D.
The American Jewish Archives Journal, 2023

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Henkin headshotA History of Reform Rabbinic Placement

by Rabbi Alan Henkin, Ph.D.
CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly, 2014

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Documentary History

Michael Meyer headshotThe Reform Judaism Reader: North American Documents

by Michael A. Meyer, Ph.D. and Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut
URJ Press, 2000

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Program Histories: the History of the School of Communal Service (now Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management)

School of Jewish Communal Service In Its 15th Year

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Video Documentaries