The Jewish Publication Society imprint: 96 books
Stolen Words
The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Stolen Words is an epic story about the largest collection of Jewish books in the world—tens of millions of books that the Nazis looted from European Jewish families and institutions. Nazi soldiers and civilians emptied Jewish communal libraries, confiscated volumes from government collections,...
Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice
Studies in Tradition and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Internationally recognized scholar David Ellenson shares twenty-three of his most representative essays, drawing on three decades of scholarship and demonstrating the consistency of the intellectual-religious interests that have animated him throughout his lifetime.
These essays center...
Exiles in Sepharad
The Jewish Millennium in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life in Exiles in Sepharad. Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this colorful period of Jewish history, from the era when Jewish culture was at its height in Muslim Spain to the horrors of the Inquisition and the Expulsion.
Twenty...
Saving One's Own
Jewish Rescuers during the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In this remarkable, historically significant book, Mordecai Paldiel recounts in vivid detail the many ways in which, at great risk to their own lives, Jews rescued other Jews during the Holocaust. In so doing he puts to rest the widely held belief that all Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe wore blinders...
by Daniel M. Horwitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
An unprecedented annotated anthology of the most important Jewish mystical works, A Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism Reader is designed to facilitate teaching these works to all levels of learners in adult education and college classroom settings. Daniel M. Horwitz’s insightful introductions and commentary...
Judaism's Great Debates
Timeless Controversies from Abraham to Herzl
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of this book possible: David Lerman and Shelley Wallock; D. Walter Cohen, Wendy and Leonard Cooper; Rabbi Howard Gorin; Gittel and Alan Hilibrand; Marjorie and Jeffrey Major; Jeanette Lerman Neubauer and Joe Neubauer; Gayle and David Smith;...
The Zionist Ideas
Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The most comprehensive Zionist collection ever published, The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow sheds light on the surprisingly diverse and shared visions for realizing Israel as a democratic Jewish state. Building on Arthur Hertzberg’s classic, The Zionist Idea,...
In This Hour
Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
In This Hour offers the first English translations of selected German writings by Abraham Joshua Heschel from his tumultuous years in Nazi-ruled Germany and months in London exile, before he found refuge in the United States. Moreover, several of the works have never been published in any language....
Justice for All
How the Jewish Bible Revolutionized Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Justice for All demonstrates that the Jewish Bible, by radically changing the course of ethical thought, came to exercise enormous influence on Jewish thought and law and also laid the basis for Christian ethics and the broader development of modern Western civilization.
Jeremiah Unterman...
by Sylvie Weil
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The streets are eerily empty, and everyone in the Jewish community is terrified of Peter the Hermit. His men, the Crusaders, are moving through the town on their way to the Holy Land. They have been known to batter down doors and burn Jewish houses, all in the name of religion.
This...
by Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
For too many Jewish young people, bar/bat mitzvah has been the beginning of the end of their Jewish journeys. When students perceive the Torah as incomprehensible or irrelevant, many form the false impression that Judaism has nothing to say to them.
Enter the game-changer: the JPS B’nai Mitzvah...
Akiva
Life, Legend, Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The legendary Akiva ben Yosef has fascinated Jews for centuries. Arguably the most important of the Tannaim, or early Jewish sages, Akiva lived during a crucial era in the development of Judaism as we know it today, and his theology played a major part in the development of Rabbinic Judaism. Reuven...
Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism
Secrets of "The Guide for the Perplexed"
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A publishing sensation long at the top of the best-seller lists in Israel, the original Hebrew edition of Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism has been called the most successful book ever published in Israel on the preeminent medieval Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides. The works of Maimonides,...
A Year with Mordecai Kaplan
Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
You are invited to spend a year with the inspirational words, ideas, and counsel of the great twentieth-century thinker Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, through his meditations on the fifty-four weekly Torah portions and eleven Jewish holidays.
A pioneer of ideas and action—teaching that “Judaism...