was also a Reform rabbi, who served as rabbi of Temple Beth Israel in Jackson, Michigan. His nephew, Rabbi Joshua Eli Plaut, Ph.D (son of Rabbi Walter H. and Hadassah Y. Plaut) is the director of the New York City based American Friends of Rabin Medical Center. Selected works Die materielle Eheungültigkeit (doctoral dissertation, 1934) High Holiday Services for Children (1952) Mount Zion – The First Hundred Years (1956) The Jews in Minnesota; the first seventy-five years (1959) 59-14710 The Book of Proverbs – A Commentary (1961) 61-9760 Judaism and the Scientific Spirit (1962) 61-17139 The Rise of Reform Judaism: A Sourcebook of Its European Origins (1963) 63-13568 The Case for the Chosen People – The Role of the Jewish People Yesterday and Today (1965) 65-19869 The Growth of Reform Judaism (1965) 65-18555 Your Neighbour is a Jew (1967) The Sabbath as Protest: Thoughts on Work and Leisure in the Automated Society (1970) Page Two – Ten Years of "News and Views." (1971) A Shabbat Manual (1972) 72-10299 Genesis. The Torah, A Modern Commentary, Vol. I (1974) Exodus. The Torah, A Modern Commentary, Vol. II Time to Think (1977) Hanging Threads: Stories Real and Surreal (1978) . Published in U.S. as The Man in the Blue Vest and Other Stories (1978) Numbers. The Torah, A Modern Commentary, Vol. IV (1979) Unfinished business: an Autobiography (1981), The Torah: A Modern Commentary (1981), Deuteronomy. The Torah, A Modern Commentary, Vol. V (1983) Refugee Determination in Canada (1985) The Letter (1986) A Modern Commentary – Genesis. (1988) (In Hebrew) The Man Who Would Be Messiah: A Biographical Novel (1990), The Magen David – How the Six-Pointed Star Became an Emblem for The Jewish People (1991) German-Jewish Bible Translations: linguistic theology as a political phenonomen (1992) The Torah: a Modern Commentary Asylum: A Moral Dilemma (1995), The Haftarah Commentary (1996) More Unfinished Business (1997), Teshuvot for the Nineties: Reform Judaism’s Answers to Today’s Dilemmas (1997) The Price and Privilege of Growing Old (2000) The Reform Judaism Reader (2001) Die Torah in Jüdischer Auslegung (in German) (1999–2004) The Torah: A Modern Commentary, Revised Edition () One Voice: The Selected Sermons of W. Gunther Plaut (2007) Eight Decades: The Selected Writings of W. Gunther Plaut (2008) References External links All of Rabbi Plaut's papers are housed at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Rabbi Plaut's entire library was donated to York University and is