Günther Plaut

Günther Plaut
Personlig information
Født	1. november 1912 Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Tyskland
Død	8. februar 2012 (99 år) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Uddannelse og virke
Uddannelses­sted	Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion – New York
Beskæftigelse	Rabbiner, journalist, soldat, feltpræst
Fagområde	Jewish theology, journalistik, Reformjødedom, military chaplaincy, jødedom
Arbejdssted	Toronto
Nomineringer og priser
Udmærkelser	Store fortjenstkors af Forbundsrepublikken Tysklands fortjenestorden, Companion of the Order of Canada (2000), Officer af Ordenen af Canada (1979), Order of Ontario (1993)
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Wolf Gunther Plaut, CC, O.Ont (1. november 1912 - 8. februar 2012) var en canadisk rabbi og forfatter. Han var født og opvoksede Münster, Tyskland. Plaut var rabbi i Holy Blossom Temple i Toronto i adskillige årtier. Han var præsident for "Canadian Jewish Congress" fra 1977 til 1980, I 1983 blev han valgt som præsident for "Central Conference of American Rabbis", den internationale organisation for reformerte rabbier.

Udgivelser

• Die materielle Eheungültigkeit (doctoral dissertation, 1934)
• High Holiday Services for Children (1952)
• Mount Zion – The First Hundred Years (1956)
• The Jews in Minnesota; the first seventy-five years (1959) 59-14710
• The Book of Proverbs – A Commentary (1961) 61-9760
• Judaism and the Scientific Spirit (1962) 61-17139
• The Rise of Reform Judaism: A Sourcebook of Its European Origins (1963) 63-13568
• The Case for the Chosen People – The Role of the Jewish People Yesterday and Today (1965) 65-19869
• The Growth of Reform Judaism (1965) 65-18555
• Your Neighbour is a Jew (1967)
• The Sabbath as Protest: Thoughts on Work and Leisure in the Automated Society (1970)
• Page Two – Ten Years of “News and Views.” (1971)
• A Shabbat Manual (1972) 72-10299
• Genesis. The Torah, A Modern Commentary, Vol. I (1974)
• Exodus. The Torah, A Modern Commentary, Vol. II
• Time to Think (1977)
• Hanging Threads: Stories Real and Surreal (1978) ISBN 0-919630-99-5. Published in U.S. as The Man in the Blue Vest and Other Stories (1978) ISBN 0-8008-5093-9
• Numbers. The Torah, A Modern Commentary, Vol. IV (1979) ISBN 0-8074-0039-4
• Unfinished business: an Autobiography (1981), ISBN 0-919630-41-3
• The Torah: A Modern Commentary (1981), ISBN 0-8074-0055-6
• Deuteronomy. The Torah, A Modern Commentary, Vol. V (1983)
• Refugee Determination in Canada (1985)
• The Letter (1986) ISBN 0-7710-7164-7
• A Modern Commentary – Genesis. (1988) (In Hebrew)
• The Man Who Would Be Messiah: A Biographical Novel (1990), ISBN 0-88962-400-3
• The Magen David – How the Six-Pointed Star Became an Emblem for The Jewish People (1991) ISBN 0-910250-16-2
• German-Jewish Bible Translations: linguistic theology as a political phenonomen (1992)
• The Torah: a Modern Commentary ISBN 0-8074-0055-6
• Asylum: A Moral Dilemma (1995), ISBN 0-275-95196-0
• The Haftarah Commentary (1996) ISBN 0-8074-0551-5
• More Unfinished Business (1997), ISBN 0-8020-0888-7
• Teshuvot for the Nineties: Reform Judaism’s Answers to Today’s Dilemmas (1997) ISBN 0-88123-071-5
• The Price and Privilege of Growing Old (2000) ISBN 0-88123-081-2
• The Reform Judaism Reader (2001) ISBN 0-8074-0732-1
• Die Torah in Judischer Auslegung (in German) (1999–2004)
• The Torah: A Modern Commentary, Revised Edition (ISBN 0-8074-0883-2)
• One Voice: The Selected Sermons of W. Gunther Plaut (2007) ISBN 978-1-55002-739-6
• Eight Decades: The Selected Writings of W. Gunther Plaut (2008) ISBN 978-1-55002-861-4

Eksterne links

• Gunther Plaut Arkiveret 30. september 2007 hos Wayback Machine på The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Scholar urged Jews to engage larger world Globe and Mail obituary 14 Feb. 2012