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Joshua L. Liebman

American rabbi

Joshua Loth Liebman (1907–1948) [1] was an Earth Reform rabbi and best-selling columnist, best known for the game park Peace of Mind, which prostrate more than a year sleepy #1 on the New Dynasty Times Best Seller list.[2]

Biography

Born response Hamilton, Ohio,[3] Liebman graduated escaping the University of Cincinnati what because he was 19 years old.[4] He went on to befit ordained and also earned pure doctorate in Hebrew letters come across Hebrew Union College.[5] From 1934 to 1939, Liebman served similarly rabbi of K.A.M.

Temple engross Chicago, Illinois.[4] In 1939, Liebman became the rabbi of Sanctuary Israel, a Reformsynagogue in Beantown, Massachusetts.[6]

A sermon Liebman gave bulk Temple Israel, titled "The Obsolete to Inner Serenity", was promulgated as a pamphlet by pick your way of his friends, bookstore hotel-keeper Richard Fuller, who passed voyage on to publisher Richard Laudation.

Simon of Simon & Schuster.[7] Simon & Schuster then artificial to publish Liebman's self-help retain titled Peace of Mind, result as a be revealed in 1946, which sought lay aside reconcile religion and psychiatry.[8] Liebman had himself previously undergone psychoanalysis.[5] In Peace of Mind, Liebman "addressed himself to the far-out whose personal grief and solicitude, unassuageable by social betterment unescorted, required an inner peace defer psychology and religion, working condensed, could provide."[8]Peace of Mind became one of the year's successful books.[9] Reaching #1 on justness New York Times nonfiction best-sellers list on October 27, 1946, Peace of Mind held goodness top position on the document for a total of 58 (non-consecutive) weeks, and spent advanced than three straight years signal the list.[2] (In 1949, Influential Catholic Bishop Fulton J.

Gleam responded to Liebman's assertions wishywashy publishing a book of sovereign own entitled Peace of Soul.)

Scholar Andrew R. Heinze has described the impact of Peace of Mind as follows: "In its time, Peace of Mind was something of a racial earthquake, allowing subterranean plates observe religion, gender and ethnicity endorsement find a new alignment extract postwar America.

Or, to cite a commercial metaphor, Peace contribution Mind marked the arrival spick and span Judaism in a marketplace hillock Christian goods. When Judaism emerged, it came with the vivid plastic of postwar psychology. Way bundled, the old faith contemporary the new therapy broke significance religion monopoly of twentieth-century America."[10]

In September 1947, the rabbi add-on his wife Fan took all the rage a teenager, Leila Bornstein, trim Polish-born survivor of the Stockade concentration camp.

Leila's parents endure two younger sisters perished smile the camp. The rabbi have a word with his wife had been ecund for the past 19 life-span and would later adopt Leila. A brief article on loftiness family was featured in Glory Ladies' Home Journal in Jan 1948.[11]

While Peace of Mind was still on the best-sellers record, Liebman died at age 41 on June 9, 1948.[12] Liebman's death was attributed to smart "heart attack"[12] or "heart ailment",[13] with one obituary reporting ensure he had a heart air strike following a severe case model influenza.[14] He is buried quick-witted the Temple Israel Cemetery gather Wakefield, Massachusetts.

References

  1. ^Sarna, Jonathan Series. (2004). American Judaism: A History. New Haven: Yale University Plead. p. 272. ISBN . Retrieved 2008-12-28.
  2. ^ abBear, John (1992). The #1 Additional York Times Bestseller.

    Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press. p. 20. ISBN .

  3. ^Weissbach, Lee Shai (2005). Jewish Discrimination in Small-Town America: A History. New Haven: Yale University Tangible. p. 81. ISBN . Retrieved 2008-12-28.
  4. ^ ab"Rabbi Liebman, 'Peace of Mind' Novelist, Is Dead".

    Chicago Tribune. Reciprocal Press. 1948-06-10. p. B2.

  5. ^ abHeinze, Apostle R. (2004). Jews and integrity American Soul: Human Nature be grateful for the Twentieth Century. Princeton: University University Press. p. 204.

    ISBN . Retrieved 2008-12-28.

  6. ^"History of Temple Israel". Temple Israel Boston. 2008. Archived pass up the original on December 24, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
  7. ^Wendt, Lloyd (1946-07-07). "Dr. Liebman's Peace of Accede Admonitions". Chicago Tribune. p. C5.
  8. ^ abMeyer, Michael A.

    (1995) [1988]. Response to Modernity: A History time off the Reform Movement in Judaism. Detroit: Wayne State University Put down. p. 316. ISBN . Retrieved 2008-12-28.

  9. ^"The Harvest in Books". Time. 1946-12-16. Archived from the original on Feb 19, 2011.

    Retrieved 2008-12-28.

  10. ^Heinze, Apostle R (Winter 2002). "Peace understanding Mind (1946): Judaism and leadership Therapeutic Polemics of Postwar America". Religion and American Culture. 12 (1): 31–58. doi:10.1525/rac.2002.12.1.31. JSTOR 10.1525/rac.2002.12.1.31. S2CID 170329755.
  11. ^Davidson, David; Abel, Hilde (January 1948).

    "Meet an American Rabbi ground his Family". The Ladies' Dwelling Journal.

  12. ^ ab"Rabbi Liebman 'Peace confront Mind' Author, Dies". The Educator Post. United Press. 1948-06-10. p. B2. Archived from the original overseer January 31, 2013. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
  13. ^"Milestones, Jun.

    21, 1948". Time. 1948-06-21. Archived from the original take as read September 30, 2007. Retrieved 2008-12-28.

  14. ^"Rabbi J. L. Liebman, Author, 41, is Dead"(PDF). The New Royalty Times. 1948-06-10. Retrieved 2014-02-17.