•••■■■■■■■•■ 6 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 (Continued from Page 3) 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 Le Shono Toro Tikoseva to various Jewish and Christian Louis E. 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