The Jewish Publication Society of America was founded in Philadelphia in 1888 to provide the children of Jewish immigrants to America with books about their heritage in the language of the New World. As the oldest publisher of Jewish titles in the English language, the mission of JPS is to enhance Jewish culture by promoting the dissemination of religious and secular works of exceptional quality, in the United States and abroad, to all individuals and institutions interested in past and contemporary Jewish life.
Over the years JPS has issued a body of works for all tastes and needs. Its many titles include biographies, histories, art books, holiday anthologies, books for young readers, religious and philosophical studies, and translations of scholarly and popular classics. It is perhaps known best for its famous JPS Tanakh, the translation of the Hebrew Bible in English from the original Hebrew. You can find more information about JPS by visiting their website.
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Rabbi Louis Ginzberg (1878-1953) was one of the great Talmudists of the twentieth century. Born into a religious family in Lithuania, Ginzberg moved to America in 1899 and took a position at Hebrew Union College. This lead to his work for the Jewish Encyclopedia, for which he eventually authored 450 articles. Ginzberg soon left HUC to teach Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary from its reorganization in 1902 until his death. His remarkable scholarship in Jewish studies garnered Ginzberg an honorary doctorate by Harvard University in celebration of its tercentenary. He was also founder and president of the American Academy of Jewish Research.
Ginzberg was the author of a number of scholarly Jewish works, including a commentary on Talmud Yerushalmi (the Jerusalem Talmud) and his celebrated Legends of the Jews, which combined hundreds of legends and parables from a lifetime of Midrash research.