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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
October I,
1943
BOOK
was of Christian origin. The Jew- motives were in direct response ciety and on the interest which guide the
Society's policy. Th1 5
ish Publication Society rose to to the needs of American Israel it commands from the public. All leadership
, y b Ian
g t radition, aim
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the occasion. In cooperation with during and after the First World the great aim famous Jewish to discover the spiritual need of s
the Central Conference of Ameri- War Ameri can sra
I el
to the men and women of the can Rabbis, the Jewish Publica- great Jewish
the publishing houses of Europe the community and to satisfy th
center of saw
Russia
at
growing Anie•ican community.
tion Society produced an En g- and Poland succumb to misfor- have been discontinued or de - need to the best of its ability.
It is hard to tell to what ex-
stroyed. Palestine alone, outside
In this critical time for Jewry
lish translation which retains the tune and terror. For its own of America, still continues the
tent the Jewish Publication So- best
ele
of the King James sake and for the sake of its heri-
all ove r the world
ciety helped foster the growing Version ments
tr
ok-making . w isdom to rebuild we sh all nee
but presents the Jewish tage American Israel had to save
and ce
ourag d
community consciousness among attitude and interpretation. The also
W ha itetverart.
adition Pale bone
tine is des-
the literar y and intellectual Jewish
to carry on; we shall need self
the Jews of the •United States. It publication of the Society's trans-
p lo y
g 1
treasures
of
the
Jewish
past.
teal
sustenance
to
the
Jews
of
knowledge
and
dignity.
From
the
, s easy to see, however, that the lation of the Bible (1917) marks
leadership of the Society was the emergence of American Is- Again it was the Jewish Publi- the world, it cannot do so now vast heritage accumulated by our
keenly aware of the spiritual rael as a community spiritually cation Society that accepted the and it is doubtful that it will be people through its long history
In response
to these
needs of American Israel. The independent and intellectually challenge.
needs, the Schiff
Library
of Jew- able to do so for some time to we can cull enough of value for
every hour of trial. We have the
time soon came for the Jews to productive.
ish Classics and the Jewish Corn- come. To be sure, the Jewish scholars and the authors, both
roelahn the Bible. Ignorance of
Two
new
motives
had
thus
en-
munities Series were initiated. Publication Society is not the from among our own and from
this fundamental Jewish treasure
tered into the Society's work or The former was made possible by only publisher of Jewish books in among those whom cruelly Bens,.
was partly due to ignorance of at
attained prominence in Jacob H. Schiff's munificent gift America. That is as it should less enemies of humanity
the Hebrew language. The Jews. it: least
has .•
be; it is a sign of communal
the aim to unite the commu- to the Society which resulted health
and growth. The
, , cast upon our shor. The ewsh
in this respect as well, were liv- nity
J i
around
its
spiritual
heritage
in
rhe
a
Jew's"
Publication
Societyes
ing on borrowings from others.
stands read %
of 17 volumes. Publication Society remains, how-
to continue
and to double
ii,
The traditional Jewish meaning— and the desire to give the Ameri- Of the Communities Series, seven ever, the only non-profit institu- service
to
American
Israel. W.,
can
Jew
a
sense
of
continuity
in
in many instances the true mean relation to the great Jewish com- volumes have a ppeared, with an- tion of its kind dedicated to the cannot doubt that American l>-
ing—of the Bible's words and
other one, on Vilna, soon to conic spread of Jewish culture, the rael in its turn will make it po
thoughts had been lost because munities of the past. Both these off the press. • Incidentally, the
Society's press was then estab- only impartial, non-sectarian in- Bible for the Society to go on to
the translation in general Us e
terpreter of the Jewish spirit. J.
lished and is unique in the United So
Solis-Cohen,
Jr.,
a scion
of a greater strength.
States
for
the
service
it
renders
great
American
family,
Judge
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