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blue gilt lettered cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. tiny scratch on the rear. edges clean. Signed with a dated inscription (March 1967) by Goldie Adler on the front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of all markings . dustwrapper in vg cond. torn a bit at spine top, wrinkled on the rear, corners rubbed, minor soiling. not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, underlining, remainder markings ~ first edition . first printing (nap). xiv+239p. about the author. biography. autobiography. memoirs. religion. theology. philosophy. psychology.politics. world history. world war ii. american history. jewish history. michigan history.~ WHEN RABBI MORRIS ADLER was tragically shot by a deranged student in March, 1966, in his synagogue filled with 700 persons, his congregation and all of American Jewry lost an extraordinarily wise and compassionate leader: and the world lost an articulate fighter for peace, harmony, order, understanding, and sanity. "Who, after all, was Morris Adler," asks Lily Edelman in her sensitive introduction to this volume of the rabbi's best articles, "that fifteen thousand mourners ~ Jew and Gentile, Negro and white, leader and led, worker and employer, religionist and nonbeliever ~ should have converged, from near and far, on the Detroit suburb of Southfield on March 13, 1966, to pay their last respects? What manner of man was he that so many should continue to remember?" He was a man who earned two doctoral degrees during his lifetime, and one posthumously. He was a man who held innumerable high communal offices. He was a man frequently called upon by national and state bodies to speak on matters of church and state, interfaith and intergroup relations. Ultimately, he was a man of vital, broad, and temperate character, a man intimately concerned with each individual he met no less than with the largest issues of our day. Fortunately, Rabbi Adler literally loved words, so that these articles, sensitively collected by his widow, Goldie Adler, and Lily Edelman, Director of the Commission on Adult Jewish Education of the B'nai B'rith, are an enduring record of this truly great spiritual leader. There are forthright statements on civil rights, freedom, war, peace, death, Jewish culture, anti~Semitism; some marvelously witty and whimsical pieces on "the human comedy"; warm tributes to great men in American and Jewish affairs; and eloquent delineations of his role as rabbi. MAY I HAVE A WORD WITH YOU? glows with the warmth, commitment, and wisdom that made Rabbi Morris Adler so beloved and respected by so many thousands across the whole United States. It is filled with a rare and remarkable humanity, a humanity that endured to the very last moments of Rabbi Adler's life. Seller Inventory # 6271201
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