Judaism as a Civilization

Judaism as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American-Jewish Life

Author	Mordecai M. Kaplan
Cover artist	Janet Halverson
Language	English
Subject	Judaism, Sociology of Jewry
Genre	Religion
Published	1934 (The Macmillan Company), 1967 (Shocken Books)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	601 pages (1967 edition)
ISBN	978-1330267707

Judaism as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American-Jewish Life is a 1934 work on Judaism and American Jewish life by Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism.

The book is Kaplan's most notable work and has influenced a number of American Jewish thinkers. Kaplan's work centers around the concept that Judaism ought not to be defined as the religion of the Jews, but the sum of Jewish religion, culture, language, literature and social organization.