HOWARD S. LEVY1. WILLIAM M. LEWIS1. REV. DR. LOUIS L. MANN 2 PHILIP B. PERLMAN 3. DR. A. S. W. ROSENBACH3 RABBI ABBA HILLEL SILVER3. EDWIN WOLF 1. ISAAC W. BERNHEIM1 HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS REV. DR. HENRY COHEN 2 Philadelphia Philadelphia Chicago Philadelphia New York Philadelphia .New York Baltimore .Philadelphia .Pittsburgh . Philadelphia Philadelphia Cleveland Philadelphia Wilkes-Barre .New York .New York .Pittsburgh Philadelphia Philadelphia LOUIS K. GUTMAN1, REV. DR. MAX HELLER 3 S. W. JACOBS 2. LOUIS E. KIRSTEIN 2 JULIAN W. MACK 2. SIMON W. ROSENDALE 3 SIGMUND B. SONNEBORN 3 REV. DR. JOSEPH STOLZ1. PUBLICATION COMMITTEE DR. CYRUS ADLER, Chairman.. DR. DAVID S. BLONDHEIM DR. S. SOLIS COHEN... REV. DR. H. G. ENELOW. RABBI HARRY ETTELSON.. DR. HERBERT FRIEDENWALD. FELIX N. GERSON.. DR. ISAAC HUSIK.. .Louisville Galveston .Baltimore New Orleans Montreal Boston New York ..Albany Cincinnati San Francisco . Baltimore . Chicago Philadelphia Philadelphia 1Term expires in 1926. Term expires in 1927. Term expires in 1928. RABBI MAX KLEIN.. REV. DR. JULIAN MORGENSTERN. REV. DR. DAVID PHILIPSON. REV. DR. SAMUEL SCHULMAN. OSCAR S. Straus. SAMUEL STRAUSS. HENRIETTA SZOLD.. I. GEORGE DOBSEVAGE, Secretary. JEWISH CLASSICS COMMITTEE DR. CYRUS ADLER, Chairman.. DR. SOLOMON SOLIS COHEN. DR. ISRAEL DAVIDSON.. DR. LOUIS GINZBERG. REV. DR. KAUFMAN KOHLER. REV. DR. F. DE SOLA MENDES. Philadelphia New York . New York New York Philadelphia New York .New York New York Philadelphia Philadelphia .Philadelphia New York New York .New York New York Cincinnati . Philadelphia New York New York Cincinnati New York Philadelphia THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA The Annual Meeting of the Jewish Publication Society of America was held on Sunday evening, March 22, 1925, at the Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh, Pa. The Honorable Josiah Cohen, of Pittsburgh, presided, while Mr. I. George Dobsevage, of Philadelphia, acted as Secretary. Judge Cohen sounded the keynote of the society's aimnamely, to place in every Jewish home a copy of the new English translation of the Bible, which has been prepared by the foremost Jewish scholars of America. The President of the Society, Mr. Simon Miller, in submitting the report of the Board of Trustees, touched upon the importance of making available in English the literature calculated to educate the Jew to a better knowledge of his history, religion and ethics, so that he may become self-respecting and in this way secure the respect of his non-Jewish neighbor. THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT We are gathered here to report the results of our stewardship for the year ending February 28th, 1925, which marks the completion of the thirty-seventh year of the activities of the Society. This occasion also marks the beginning of what we hope may be continued, namely, that our annual meetings may be held from time to time in other towns than the home city Philadelphia. For purposes of experiment we selected Pittsburgh because your city has always responded generously to our appeals, and we have reason to hope that the success which will attend this meeting, and the deliberations of your honorable committee which is sponsoring this meeting may result so favorably for the Society that other communities will follow in your footsteps. We are not political prophets though our business is to publish the works of our prophets, and yet we feel sure that speaking Jewishly we might say that as Pittsburgh goes, so will go the rest of the country. It might be well to state briefly the aims of the Society. The Jewish Publication Society of America was organized in 1888 for the purpose of publishing and disseminating in English the best available literature of Jewish interest. The Society is strictly an educational and not a commercial institution. Its primary object is to publish books so that the Jewish people of America should not stand solitary and alone, among all the sects inhabiting the land, without a literature to unite them. Our Society recognizes all shades of Judaism. Avoiding all narrowness, the Society has succeeded in perhaps a greater degree than any other organization that was ever started among the Jews of the United States, in welding into one body Jews whose interpretation of Judaism differed most widely, and yet consciously or subconsciously who recognized that in some way, somehow, they are related to each other by a common tradition. Moreover, as the Jews are a minority people it becomes a duty not only to avoid being misunderstood, but to secure a patient hearing and a fair judgment. But to understand ourselves is the first and most important problem. If we would inspire our youth to helpful partisanship in our cause, they must learn that we are the bearers of something worth preserving; that we have done, and do still, great work for mankind. The Society aims to instruct the Jew |