Bring a Book to Life
Bring a book to life by becoming a JPS Title Sponsor. Underwrite, in whole or in part, the publication of classic Jewish texts in English or cutting-edge new scholarship. Bring to life one of the books listed below and your name will appear among thousands of others who have invested in the future of American Jewish culture.
Judaism after Modernity
Irving (Yitz) Greenberg
A reflection on the development of Judaism in its interaction with major developments in Jewish history during biblical times, the rabbinic period, the Middle Ages, the Holocaust, and founding of the nation of Israel.Commentary on Lamentations
Edward L. Greenstein
As with all the JPS Bible Commentaries, Greenstein's volume includes the complete book of Lamentations in Hebrew and in English; a critical line-by-line commentary presenting the latest in scholarship and archaeological research; a historical introduction discussing the literary, thematic, and theological issues raised in the book; and scholarly essays on pertinent topics. In addition, he includes a survey of the influence and use of Lamentations in later Jewish and Christian traditions up to the present day.JPS Illustrated Children's Bible
Retold by Ellen Frankel
Acclaimed storyteller and Jewish scholar Ellen Frankel has masterfully selected and retold 53 Bible stories that will both delight and educate today's young readers. And award-winning Israeli artist Avi Katz's brush captures the vivid personalities and key dramatic moments in this extraordinary collection.When Women Seduced Gods (and Other Stories the Bible Doesn't Want Us to Know)
Yair Zakovitch and Avigdor Shinan
Who parted the waters of the Sea of Reeds? Who killed Goliath? Why do Jews eat matzah at Passover? While the Bible offers clear answers to these questions, the people of Ancient Israel knew other answers as well, answers that the biblical writers wanted us to forget. This book, a feat of literary archaeology, unearths layers of stories to recover those answers.Children's Literature: A JPS Guide
Linda Silver
A lively look into the best of Jewish children's literature published in the U.S., with entries on dozens of titles that will delight youngsters, their parents and other readers.Rabbinics: A JPS Guide
Jonah Chanan Steinberg
An introduction to the corpus of Rabbinic literature through an historical and literary survey of the most important works. Readers will get more than just answers to questions like "Why are there two Talmuds?"; "How is Misnah and Midrash different?; "Why is Maimnonides considered one of the great Rabbinic sages?"; and so many others. They can also take part in the actual practice of rabbinic learning, a little at a time. For these texts will help them understand the various ways in which early rabbinic sages and later proponents of rabbinic law, throughout the history of rabbinic Judaism, have embraced and struggled with the dual role of being both guardians of a sacred legacy and pioneers in the continuing development of a living and active tradition.The Commentators' Bible: Leviticus
Translated and annotated by Michael Carasik
First published 500 years ago as the "Rabbinic Bible," the biblical commentaries known as Miqra'ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With this edition, the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nahmanides, Rashbam, and other medieval Bible commentators come alive once more, for the book of Leviticus, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated and explicated for lay readers.Why Do We Suffer, A Guide to Choosing Answers
Rachel Adler
Adler examines the significance of suffering in Jewish tradition as well as how to interpret the Bible and Talmud's position on suffering, lamentation, and collective responsibility. Is human suffering retribution for our sins? Does God use suffering as a way to test the faith of His followers as He did with Job? Is lamenting our pain a necessary act to free ourselves from the hopelessness and meaninglessness that plagues us? Adler explores these questions and many more, using biblical texts and the theories and writings of Jon Levinson, Viktor Frankl, Primo Levi, Harold Kushner, and others.Many Pious Women
Justin Jaron Lewis and Harry Fox
Referred to as "a eulogy of virtuous women," this translation (with commentary) from a section of the 1504 Yiddish manuscript, Seder Nashim, is a lively, often funny, somewhat bawdy work of storytelling in rhyming prose, with a tone and message that can only be called feminist.Folktales of the Jews
Dan Ben-Amos and Dov Noy
The 71 tales here and the others in this 6-volume series have been selected from the Israel Folklore Archives (IFA), a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, t ale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography.- volume 4: Folktales of Arabia
- volume 5: Folktales of the Orient
- volume 6: Folktales from Other Lands