Visions of Reform

Berkeley, California: Judah L. Magnes Museum, 2000. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Octavo in grey color illus DJ, xviii, 534 pages, b&w illustrations, map, 23 cm. Extremely gentle rubbing to spine head and foot, pale sunning to spine and fore-edges, light soiling and sunning to DJ spine, very mild rubbing to DJ spine head, else near fine(+) in near fine(-) DJ. in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 0943376688

DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. Contents: Foreword / Stephen Mark Dobbs -- Instant metropolis -- Elkan Cohn: temple on a hill -- Jacob Voorsanger: axioms of reform -- Martin Meyer: temple and community -- Louis Newman: the renascent twenties -- Reuben Rinder: music and humanity -- Irving Reichert: years of rancor -- Alvin Fine: postwar revival and neo-reform -- Joseph Asher: verities for a volatile world -- Robert Kirschner: fallen star -- Stephen Pearce: temple of the open door. Jews -- California -- San Francisco -- History.