JPS : the Americanization of Jewish culture, 1888-1988 / Jonathan D. Sarna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarna, Jonathan D.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish Publication Society--History.

Jewish Publication Society.

Jewish publishing--United States--History.

Jewish publishing.

Jews--United States--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Jews--Intellectual life.

United States.

Jewish Publication Society of America.

Jews--United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

Jews--United States--Publishing--History.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 430 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1989.

Summary:

Published to mark the 100th anniversary of The Jewish Publication Society, Jonathan Sarna's engaging blend of anecdote and analysis presents the personalities and the controversies, the struggles and the achievements behind a century of publishing by the oldest English-language publisher of Jewish books in the world. Includes several black and white photographs and extensive listings of JPS officers and editors, governing boards, and authors, translators, and illustrators, up to 1988.

Contents:

False starts

A real beginning

The golden years

The Henrietta Szold era

The Bible, the classics, and the legends

The lean years

The Maurice Jacobs years

The postwar challenge

Continuity and change.

Notes:

"A centennial history of the Jewish Publication Society."

"Philip and Muriel Berman edition"--Preliminary leaf.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-414) and index.

Local Notes:

CJS copy acc.# 205371

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0827603185

9780827603189

OCLC:

18520406