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REPORT OF THE FORTIETH YEAR OF THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA 1927-1928 THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA OFFICERS PRESIDENT SIMON MILLER, Philadelphia FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT ADOLPH S. OCHS, New York SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT HORACE STERN, Philadelphia TREASURER LIONEL FRIEDMANN Philadelphia SECRETARY JULIUS GRODINSKY, Philadelphia EDITOR ISAAC HUSIK, Philadelphia TRUSTEES MARCUS)'AARON1 Pittsburgh DR. CYRUS ADLER1 Philadelphia EDWARD BAKER3 Cleveland HART BLUMENTHAL3 Philadelphia LEO M. BROWN3 Mobile HON. JOSIAH COHENS Pittsburgh LIONEL FRIEDMANN1 Philadelphia JOSEPH HAGEDORN2 Philadelphia REV. DR. NATHAN KRASS2 New York S. CHAS. LAMPORT2 New York Louis E. LEVINTHAL1 Philadelphia FELIX H. LEVY3 New York HOWARD S. LEVY1 Philadelphia HON. WM. M. LEWIS1 Philadelphia REV. DR. LOUIS L. MANN2 Chicago SIMON MILLER3 Philadelphia •Terms expire in 1929. Terms expire in 1930. 'Terms expire in 1931. 339 340 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK ADOLPH S. OCHS' New York PHILIP B. PERLMAN3 Baltimore CARL H. PFORZHEIMER2 New York DR. A. S. W. ROSENBACH3 Philadelphia JACOB RUBEL1 , Philadelphia DR. FRANK I. SCHECHTER2 New York JOSEPH SCHOENTHAL2 Columbus RABBI ABBA HILLEL SILVERS Cleveland MEIR STEINBRINK2 Brooklyn HON. HORACE STERN3 Philadelphia CYRUS L. SULZBERGER2 New York LUDWIG VOGELSTEIN3 New York A. LEO WEIL1 Pittsburgh JULIUS S. WEYL1 Philadelphia EDWIN WOLF1 Philadelphia MORRIS WOLF1 Philadelphia RALPH WOLF3 New York HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS ISACC W. BERNHEIM1 Cincinnati REV. DR. HENRY COHEN2 Galveston HON. ABRAM I. ELKUS1 New York HENRY FERNBERGER2 Philadelphia REV. DR. MAX HELLER3 New Orleans S. W. JACOBS2 Montreal Louis E. KIRSTEIN2 Boston HON. JULIAN W. MACK2 New York HON. SIMON W. ROSENDALE3 Albany MURRAY SEASONGOOD1 Cincinnati HON. M. C. SLOSS1 San Francisco SIGMUND B. SONNEBORN3 Baltimore REV. DR. JOSEPH STOLZ1 Chicago PUBLICATION COMMITTEE DR. CYRUS ADLER, Chairman Philadelphia DR. DAVID S. BLONDHEIM Baltimore DR. SOLOMON SOLIS-COHEN ; Philadelphia REV. DR. H. G. ENELOW New York REV. DR. HARRY W. ETTELSON Memphis FELIX N. GERSON Philadelphia DR. ISAAC HUSIK Philadelphia RABBI MAX D. KLEIN Philadelphia DR. JACOB KOHN New York OSCAR LOEB Philadelphia DR. MAX L. MARGOLIS Philadelphia DR. ALEXANDER MARX New York SIMON MILLER , Philadelphia LEON S. MOISSEIFF New York DR. JULIAN MORGENSTERN Cincinnati •Terms expire in 1929. Terms expire in 1930. 'Terms expire in 1931. JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY 341 REV. DR. DAVID PHILIPSON Cincinnati DR. JOSEPH REIDER Philadelphia DR. A. S. W. ROSENBACH Philadelphia DR. FRANK I. SCHECHTER New York REV. DR. SAMUEL SCHULMAN New York SAMUEL STRAUSS New York HENRIETTA SZOLD Jerusalem JEWISH CLASSICS COMMITTEE DR. CYRUS ADLER Philadelphia DR. SOLOMON SOLIS COHEN, Chairman Philadelphia DR. ISRAEL DAVIDSON New York REV. DR H. G. ENELOW New York DR. LOUIS GINZBERG New York DR. JACOB Z. LAUTERBACH Cincinnati DR. ALEXANDER MARX New York REV. DR. DAVID PHILIPSON Cincinnati REV. DR. SAMUEL SCHULMAN New York 342 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1927 Assets Fixed Assets: Plant, Hebrew Press $13,770.00 Dies and Plates 1,000.00 Furniture and Fixtures 1,000.00 $15,770.00 Current Assets: Cash $ 3,620.75 Investments 20,843.75 Accounts Receivable 20,020.60 Loans Receivable 140.00 Pledges 4,150.00 Inventory 22,368.80 Work in Process, Hebrew Press.. 6,450.00 $77,593 90 $93,363.90 Liabilities Current Liabilities: Accounts Payable $25,802.59 Loans Payable 1,000.00 $26,802.59 Funds: Classic Fund $39,460.65 Friedenthal Fund 2,000.00 Citternvin Fund 4,487.01 Hackenburg Fund 500.00 Levy Fund 3,000.00 LoebFund 13,127.23 $62,574.89 Surplus - 3,986.42 $93,363.90 INCOME STATEMENT FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1927 Revenue: Dues $42,514.30 Sales 71,663.35 Donations 8,349.72 $122,527.37 Expenses: Administrative Expenses $41,577.45 Manufacturing Expenses 44,617.76 Surolus 36 332.16 $122,527.37 JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY 343 Statement of Membership Life , Sus- Friend Patron Library taining Annual Alabama.... * 4 I 30 Arizona I 9 Arkansas 11 California 14 7 16 225 Colorado 1 51 Connecticut 1 81 Delaware 3 27 Washington , D. C. 3 6 27 Florida 1 22 Georgia 2 29 Idaho 1 Illinois 2 1 34 401 Indiana 4 71 Iowa 1 2. 34 Kansas 10 Kentucky 1 46 Louisiana 1 3 60 Maryland 15 264 Maine 11 Massachusetts 1 1 10 230 Michigan 1 13 152 Minnesota 83 Mississippi 18 Missouri 2 5 94 Montana 5 Nebraska 1 2 35 Nevada 1 New Hampshire. 1 3 New Jersey 2 21 405 New Mexico 11 New York 20 2 3 22 242 2350 North Carolina.... 2 2 19 North Dakota 14 Ohio 7 1 3 24 407 Oklahoma 21 Oregon 2 20 Pennsylvania 15 1 2 17 107 2199 Rhode Island 1 27 South Carolina.... 2 12 South Dakota 2 Tennessee 1 34 Texas 1 99 Utah 5 Vermont 1 Virginia 2 36 Washington. • • 3 18 344 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK Statement of Membership (Continued) Sus- Library Life taining Friend Patron Annual West Virginia 2 33 Wisconsin 4 57 Australia and New Zealand.... 19 Belgium 2 British West Indies. 5 Canada 4 2 150 Central America. 1 China 1 Cuba 1 Denmark 1 Egypt- 5 England 177 France 1 Germany 3 Hungary 1 India 1 1 Ireland 7 3 Italy 2 Mexico 3 1 Palestine 11 Porto Rico 1 Portugal 1 Scotland 5 Union of South Africa 98 Spain. • 1 Virgin Islands U.S. A 1 Wales 1 16 78 4 6 64 543 8300 3 JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY 345 THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA The Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Jewish Publication Society of America was held at Dropsie College, Broad and York Streets, Philadelphia, Pa., on Sunday evening, March 25, 1928. The feature of the evening was a fascinating discussion by the eminent English novelist, Mr. Louis Golding, on the subject of Creative Art in Jewish Life. Mr. Golding called particular attention to the remarkable help which the Jewish Publication Society has given to creative authors the world over. He emphasized the fact which has been inadequately appreciated, that the storehouse of knowledge which the Society has made available serves as an invaluable guide for the Jewish artists in all lands. The work of the Society during the preceding year was reviewed by Dr. Cyrus Adler, the Chairman of the Publica- tion Committee, in the absence of the President of the Society, who was unfortunately taken ill. The last annual meeting of the Jewish Publication Society of America was largely given over to the interesting cere- monies connected with the publication of the History of the Jewish People, at which Mr. Abraham Erlanger and the authors, Professors Max L. Margolis and Alexander Marx, were the special guests of the evening. At the present meet- ing, therefore, it is due to the members that they have a report of the publications and some of the other activities of the past two years. Since the meeting held in March, 1926, the Society has published the following works, exclusive of reprintings: An English translation of Sholom Ash's novel, Kiddush Ha- shem; the History, already alluded to; the very interesting work on Travels in North Africa by Nahum Slouschz; the two Year Books, volumes 28 and 29; and two works in the Schiff Classics Series, the Hebrew Ethical Wills by Israel Abrahams, and the Ta'anit of the Babylonian Talmud by Professor Henry Malter. The earlier volumes mentioned were distributed to all the members. The volumes of the Classics are published in a small edition and are sold to the members and to others. There has likewise appeared the 346 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK sixth volume of Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews, completing his Notes to that very valuable work and leaving a seventh volume, which will be a very careful index, thus making this important collection really accessible to all readers and schol- ars who are interested in the great legendary literature of the Jewish people. You will observe that of the publications of these two years, one was an historical novel, and one a book of travels. The History covered in a single volume the entire record of the Jewish people from the beginning to modern times. Both of the Year Books contained notable contributions in addi- tion to surveys and statistical matter. That for 1926-27, being the year of the Sesqui-Centennial, had a brief outline of the History of the Jews of America from their settlement in this country in 1654 to 1787, and a well illustrated article on the architecture of the Synagogue, beside biographies of Israel Abrahams, Kaufmann Kohler, Henry Maker and Ephraim Lederer, all of whom had been intimately con- nected with the work of the Society. The 29th volume con- tained biographies of Oscar S. Straus and Israel Zangwill. In passing I want to point out that there is no annual volume of equal significance for Jewish reference purposes published anywhere. The History was of course our most notable production of the past two years and has evoked a great number of reviews and letters. There have been criticisms here and there of particular points, principally in the modern period, always dangerous to treat, but upon the whole we feel satis- fied that an important contribution has been made not only to Jewish literature in the English language but to the entire Jewish world. The interest in the book is evidenced by the fact that we have received applications for its translation into French and into Hebrew. We have entered into an arrangement with a well-known publishing firm in Paris, at their request, and likewise with a publishing house in Jeru- salem. In the latter case the publication in Hebrew is aided by the Society through the continued generosity of Mr.

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