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Report of the Jewish Publication Society of America (1926-1927) REPORT OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA 1925-1926 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 HENRY FERNBERGER, Philadelphia SECRETARY DR. JULIUS GRODINSKY, Philadelphia EDITOR DR. ISAAC HUSIK, Philadelphia TRUSTEES MARCUS AARON* Pittsburgh DR. CYRUS ADLER* Philadelphia SOLOMON BACHARACH2 Philadelphia JAMES BECKER1 Chicago HART BLUMENTHAL3 Philadelphia LEO M. BROWN3 Mobile JOSIAH COHEN3 Pittsburgh HENRY FERNBERGER1 Philadelphia LIONEL FRIEDMANN* Philadelphia JOSEPH HAGEDORN1 Philadelphia REV. DR. NATHAN KRASS1 New York CARL LAEMMLE* New York S. CHARLES LAMPORT1 New York Louis E. LEVINTHAL3 Philadelphia FELIX H. LEVY* New York 'Term expires in 1927. Term expires In 1928. 'Term expires in 1929. 524 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK HOWARD S. LEVY* Philadelphia WILLIAM M. LEWIS1 Philadelphia REV. DR. LOUIS L. MANN l Chicago ALPHONSE B. MILLER' Philadelphia NATHAN J. MILLER » New York SIMON MILLER * Philadelphia ADOLPH S. OCHS2 New York PHILIP B. PERLMAN2 Baltimore DR. A. S. W. ROSENBACH2 Philadelphia LESSING ROSENWALD J Philadelphia JACOB RUBEL1 Philadelphia RABBI ABBA HILLEL SILVER2 Cleveland HORACE STERN 2 Philadelphia NATHAN STRAUS, JR.3 New York SBLIGMAN J. STRAUSS1 Wilkes-Barre CYRUS L. SULZBERGER ' New York LUDWIG VOGELSTEIN l New York A. LEO WEIL . .» Pittsburgh JULIUS S. WEYL » Philadelphia EDWIN WOLF * , Philadelphia MORRIS WOLF * Philadelphia HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS ISAAC W. BERNHEIM * Louisville REV. DR. HENRY COHEN l Galveston 3 ABRAM I. ELKUS K New York Louis K. GUTMAN 8 Baltimore REV. DR. MAX HELLER2 New Orleans S. W. JACOBS l Montreal Louis E. KIRSTEIN l Boston JULIAN W. MACK1 New York SIMON W. ROSENDALE2 Albany MURRAY SEASONGOOD J Cincinnati M. C. SLOSS 3 San Francisco SIGMUND B. SONNEBORN2 Baltimore REV. DR. JOSEPH STOLZ3 Chicago PUBLICATION COMMITTEE DR. CYRUS ADLER, Chairman Philadelphia DR. DAVID S. BLONDHEIM Baltimore DR. S. SOLIS COHEN Philadelphia REV. DR. H. G. ENELOW New York RABBI HARRY ETTELSON Memphis DR. HERBERT FRIEDENWALD Washington 'Term expire* in 1927. ' Term expires in 192S. • Term expirea in 1929. JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY 525 FELIX N. GERSON Philadelphia DR. ISAAC HUSIK Philadelphia RABBI MAX KLEIN Philadelphia REV. DR. JACOB KOHN New York DR. MAX L. MARGOLIS Philadelphia DR. ALEXANDER MARX New York LEON S. MOISSEIFF New York REV. DR. JULIAN MORGENSTERN ..., Cincinnati REV. DR. DAVID PHILIPSON Cincinnati DR. A. S. W. ROSENBACH Philadelphia DR. FRANK I. SCHECHTER New York REV. DR. SAMUEL SCHULMAN New York SAMUEL STRAUSS New York HENRIETTA SZOLD New York JEWISH CLASSICS COMMITTEE DR. CYRUS ADLER, Chairman Philadelphia DR. SOLOMON SOLIS COHEN 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. F. DE SOLA MENDES New York REV. DR. DAVID PHILIPSON Cincinnati REV. DR. SAMUEL SCHULMAN New York 526 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Jewish Publica- tion Society of America was held on Sunday evening, March 21, 1926, at the Y. M. and Y. W. H. A. Building in Phila- delphia. The President of the Society, Mr. Simon Miller, presided and Mr. I. George Dobsevage acted as Secretary. The President of the Society, Mr. Simon Miller presented the following report : Thirty-eight years ago in the city ,of Philadelphia, the Jewish Publication Society was born. It was conceived in the minds of a small group who realized that if Judaism in America was to prosper it must be understood and cherished. For all these years midst changing tides and through storm and stress the Society has kept afloat the Jewish ship of state, trying to guide it to the safe harbor of Jewish ideals and aspirations. The founders were actuated by the belief that Judaism must be made clear to Jews and to their Gentile neighbors. This could be done only by means of literature written in English, which in late years has come to include Jews in nearly every continent of the world. It is for this reason that in addition to publishing books dealing with Jewish religion, history, life and literature^ we undertook to make available an English translation of the Bible, the Jewish Classics, and hope, when funds are available, to publish a Jewish Commentary to the Bible. The task is vast in scope, yet a Jewry which is capable of sending S60,000,000 within ten years to aid devastated Jewries of Europe and is planning to rehabilitate them with drives running into many millions, might awake to JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY 527 the realization that an institution which will make it possible to perpetuate the knowledge of why we are Jews and why we should want to aid Jews, should receive ample support so that it can carry on this vital work. This is not an occasion for statistical displays or vain- glorious exaltation of what we have accomplished. At best it is but an earnest of what might have been done if the proper support had been afforded us. It is only a measure of greater values to be attained. Yet if but to furnish the historian and bibliographer with data it is well to chronicle that we have published over 125 distinct volumes and dis- tributed about two million copies of our publications. What a variety of themes are covered by these books, and what publisher might not point with great pride to the gallery of its authors! Abrahams, Ahad Ha-Ara, Ash, Davidson, Nina Davis Salaman, Dembitz, Dubnow, Ginzberg, Green- stone, Graetz, Halper, Husik, Jacobs, Karpeles, Kohler, Lazarus, Magnus, Malter, Margolis, Perez, Philipson, Schechter, Steinberg, Wolfenstein, Yehoash and Zangwill. Since March a year ago we published Paul Goodman's biography of Sir Moses Montefiore, The American Jewish Year Book, Kasriel the Watchman by Rufus Learsi, the fifth volume of Ginzberg's "Legends of the Jews," and we have reprinted another edition of our Translation of the Bible, marking the sixth printing, in all 120,000 copies. The life story of Sir Moses Montefiore is the fifth volume in the Society's "Jewish Worthies Series", the others being "Maimonides," "Rashi," "Josephus" and "Philo." The life of Sir Moses Montefiore is in itself a chapter of the history of the Jews in modern times, and it was only by his great skill that the author, Paul Goodman, of London, 528 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK was enabled in the limited space of 260 pages to deal so minutely with the large amount of material available in connection with the subject. It is attractively illustrated with several portraits of Sir Moses Montefiore, Judith Lady Montefiore, East Cliff Lodge, Lady Judith Montefiore College at Ramsgate, and other illustrations. The American Jewish Year Book, the twenty-seventh in the series, edited by Harry Schneiderman, maintained the high standard set by the earlier volumes. The leading article in it was the historical sketch tracing the growth and the development of the Jews of Canada. This article was written by Martin Wolff of Toronto. This Year Book contains a biographical sketch of the late Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, rabbi, orator and educator; another of the late Dr. Martin A. Meyer, the distinguished rabbi of San Francisco, and one on the late Julius Kahn, who was for many years a representative in Congress from the State of California and whose long public life was a notable record of loyal service. The Survey of the year, tracing the course of Jewish life in the various countries during the past year is briefly and lucidly outlined by Dr. Harry S. Linfield, who is unusually well equipped for his task because of his connection with the Bureau of Jewish Research. Also under Dr. Linfield's direction there has appeared a list of statistics of Jews in which was included a special study of the Jewish popula- tion of the Union of South Africa, carefully revised and brought up to date. The Year Book contains important reports of the Ameri- can Jewish Committee, detailing its activities in national and international matters. JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY 529 The Fifth volume of "The Legends of the Jews" consists entirely of Professor Louis Ginzberg's notes covering the text of Volumes I and II of his monumental work, dealing with Bible characters and incidents from Creation to Moses in Egypt. Volume six, now in plates, includes the notes to the text of Volumes III and IV and covers the period of Moses in the Wilderness to Esther. In the notes will be found the sources from which the material was drawn, and they will be seen to be co-extensive with Rabbinical, Apocryphal, and Pseud-epigraphic literature, and to cover also a considerable portion of mediaeval Jewish literature. Volume VII will contain lengthy excursus, consisting of discussions on important literature and the problems of folklore connected with the subject. It will also contain a complete bibliography of the works referred to in the notes, and an exhaustive index covering the seven volumes, serving as a key to the entire work. Throughout, the notes supple- ment the text by giving variant legends which for the sake of continuity could not be incorporated in the text and had" to be given separately in the notes. This work embodies a mine of learning and comprises the first and most complete collection of Jewish legends about the Bible. The layman as well as the religious teacher will find the text most useful. The legends supply what the Biblical narratives omit. They fill up the gaps; they explain the motives; they enlarge the story; they form the connection between the remotest countries, ages, and peoples, often with startling realism.
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