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The Jewish Publication Society (JPS), originally known as the Jewish Publication Society of America, is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher of Jewish works in English. Founded in Philadelphia in 1888, by reform Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf among others, JPS is especially well known for its English translation of the Hebrew Bible, the JPS Tanakh.
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- American Jewish Year Book
- Chapters on Jewish Literature, by Israel Abrahams (1899) (transcription project)
- Songs of Exile, by Hebrew Poets, translated by Nina Davis (1901)
- A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy, 1916
- The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text: A New Translation with the Aid of Previous Versions and with Constant Consultation of Jewish Authorities, translation, 1917