A Tale of Ten Cities: The Triple Ghetto in American Religious Life

New York: Union/American Hebrew Congregations, [1962]. very good/good. 22 cm, 344 pages, former owner's sticker on endpapers. Signed by the author (Lipman). The ways in which Protestants, Catholics, and Jews are relating to one another (or failing to relate) in ten American cities, including Nashville, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Muncie.Rabbi Lipman was a civil rights activist and past president of the National Capital Area chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. He also had been a teacher and author of four books and more than 75 papers and articles in the field of Judaism. He was a past president of the Washington Board of Rabbis, a national leader in Reform Judaism and former director of its Commission on Social Action. He was rabbi at Temple Sinai from 1961 until retiring in 1987. A resident of Chevy Chase, Rabbi Lipman served as an Army chaplain in Europe during World War II. After the war, he remained in Europe for three years helping to relocate Holocaust survivors to Palestine and the United States. In 1948, he returned to the United States, served as director of the Hillel Foundation at the University of Washington in Seattle, then joined the staff of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in New York, where he was director of synagogue activities and the commission on social action. During his years at Temple Sinai, Rabbi Lipman participated in several civil rights demonstrations, including marches in Selma, Ala., and St. Augustine, Fla., where in 1964 he was jailed with 16 other rabbis. They spent their time in the jail cell praying and studying the Torah. Rabbi Lipman later described the incarceration as "one of the more significant religious experiences I've had in my lifetime." His books included "Justice and Judaism: The Work of Social Action," "A Tale of Ten Cities," "The Mishnah: Oral Teachings of Judaism" and "Yamim Nora'im: Sinai Sermons." He had contributed chapters to 13 other books.