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Jewish Publication Society of America
Also known as: Jewish Publication Society
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contribution of Szold
- In Henrietta Szold
…editorial secretary of the five-year-old Jewish Publication Society. During her 23 years in that post she was largely responsible for the publication of English versions of Moritz Lazarus’s The Ethics of Judaism, Nahum Slouschz’s Renascence of Hebrew Literature, and other works and for a revised edition of Heinrich Graetz’s five-volume…
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translations of Old Testament
- In biblical literature: Jewish versions
…1892, the project of the Jewish Publication Society of America was the first translation for which a group representing Jewish learning among English-speaking Jews assumed joint responsibility. This version essentially retained the Elizabethan diction of the King James Version and yet stuck unswervingly to the received Hebrew text, which it…
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