Mel Scult is professor emeritus at Brooklyn College, The City University of New York. He is the author of Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan (Wayne State University Press, 1993) and The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan. He edited volumes 1 and 2 of Kaplan's journals from 1913 to 1941 (Wayne State University Press, 2001 and 2016) and his works have been published in Israel in Hebrew. He is co-founder and vice president of the Mordecai M. Kaplan Center for Jewish Peoplehood.