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Features the oldest-known complete Hebrew version of the Holy Scriptures, side by side with JPS's renowned English translation. Its well-designed format allows for ease of reading and features clear type, an engaging and efficient two-column format that enables readers to move quickly from one language to another, and an organization that contemporary readers will find familiar.

This pocket-sized TANAKH is the most portable version of the Jewish Bible. Easy to hold and carry, the text is identical to that in the full-sized, English-only editions, set in two columns. It fits easily into a handbag, briefcase, backpack, or jacket pocket. The sturdy coated paper cover will stand up well to heavy use and is available in rose and moss colours.

The Torah is the essence of Jewish tradition; it inspires each successive generation. The current JPS translation, based on classical and modern sources, is acclaimed for its fidelity to the ancient Hebrew.

Mitzvot traditionally form the bond between God and individual, God and Israel. This title presents translation of the "Torah".

The Book of Revolutions unveils the epic saga of ancient Israel as the visionary legacy of inspired authors in different times and places, and the Torah as an emblem of pluralistic belief born of three revolutionary moments in history.

This first-ever translation of Sholom Aleichem's rediscovered innovative novel, Moshkeleh the Thief, has a riveting plot, an unusual love story, and a keenly observed portrayal of an underclass Jew replete with characters never before been seen in Yiddish literature.

Presents an original translation of the Holy Scriptures into contemporary English, based on the Masoretic (the traditional Hebrew) text.

The Torah is the essence of Jewish tradition; it inspires each successive generation. The current JPS translation, based on classical and modern sources, is acclaimed for its fidelity to the ancient Hebrew.

The commentary, which accompanies the Hebrew biblical text and the JPS translation, approaches the Book of Esther from a fresh literary point-of-view. It includes essays entitled "When and Where Was the Book of Esther Written?", "Sex and Spies", and "Rabbinic Interpretation".

Contemporary Humanistic Judaism opens up multidimensional ideas, values, and practices of Humanistic Judaism and tells the history and growth of the movement through its most important texts, collected here for the first time.

Yochanan’s Gamble investigates how the talmudic rabbis navigate their own ethical challenges—determining truth, upholding compromise, convincing others, keeping the peace, weighing sinning in hopes of promoting greater good—thereby forging a pragmatic Jewish path for resolving moral conundrums today.

Modern Responsa, an original anthology of Jewish ethical and ritual decision-making by rabbinic authorities—men and women, across movements (Conservative, Orthodox, Reform), geographic locales, and ethnicities (Ashkenazic, Sefardic, Mizräi)—illuminates how Judaism’s legal tradition is applied to real-life issues.

Saying No to Hate grounds readers in the history of antisemitism in America, emphasizing the strategies Jews have used to address threats and thereby preparing us to recognize, understand, and confront hatred today.

Exile and the Jews anthologizes texts from all genres of Jewish literary creativity, from the Hebrew Bible to the present, exploring how the realities and interpretations of exile have shaped Jewish religion, politics, and identity.

This edition renews and revises the iconic Jewish Publication Society translation of the Bible to reflect advances in scholarship and changes in English while maintaining the utmost fidelity to the original Hebrew.

Modern Jewish Theology is the first comprehensive collection of Jewish theological ideas from the pathbreaking nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, featuring selections from more than thirty of the most influential modern Jewish thinkers of the era.

Halakhic Man is the classic work of modern Jewish and religious thought by the twentieth century’s preeminent Orthodox Jewish theologian and talmudic scholar, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. This 40th Anniversary Edition features a new and extended preface, introduction, and scholarly apparatus that will help readers explore, appreciate, and learn from this groundbreaking work.

Biblical Women Speak employs midrash (interpretative techniques) to discover ten biblical women’s stories from a female point of view and provide insights beyond how ancient male scholars viewed them.

Judaism and Its Bible explores the profoundly deep yet complex relationship between Jews, Judaism, and the Hebrew Bible, describing the extraordinary two-and-a-half-millennia journey of a people and its book that has changed the world.

This volume of the Jewish Publication Society’s highly acclaimed Bible Commentary series provides the Hebrew text of Psalms 120–150 along with the JPS English translation and a line-by-line commentary.

Illuminating the history of Jews and Jewish-Catholic relations in Rome, Intimate Strangers investigates the unusual and uninterrupted relationship between Jews and Catholics as it has developed from the first century CE to the present.

The Messiah Confrontation argues that Jesus was convicted and crucified because of a confrontation between two Jewish ideologies—expecting a Messiah or rejecting the Messiah idea—in which Jesus and the Pharisees (the majority of Jews) were actually on the same side.

The first comprehensive volume to teach about America’s response to the Holocaust through visual media, America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History explores the complex subject through the lens of one hundred important documents that help illuminate and amplify key episodes and issues.

Modern Musar explores the diverse ways Jews understand ten virtues: honesty and love of truth; curiosity and inquisitiveness; humility; courage and valor; temperance and self-restraint; gratitude; forgiveness; love, kindness, and compassion; solidarity and social responsibility; and justice and righteousness.

The first book to plumb the depths of Judaism's abundant reservoir of hope, Choosing Hope journeys from biblical times to our day to explore nine fundamental sources of hope in Judaism.

Night of Beginnings is a groundbreaking new haggadah for the Passover seder from acclaimed poet, translator, and liturgist Marcia Falk, beautifully designed and illustrated with original color drawings by the author.

In A Year with Martin Buber, the first Torah commentary to focus on his life's work, we experience the fifty-four weekly portions and eleven Jewish holidays through Buber's eyes.

Sanctified Sex draws on two thousand years of rabbinic debates to address competing aspirations for loving intimacy, passionate sexual union, and sanctity in marriage.

Published to mark the 100th anniversary of The Jewish Publication Society, this book 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.

A unique four-part commentary on the Jewish heritage, The JPS Jewish Heritage Torah Commentary orbits each Torah portion through four central pillars of Jewish life-the Torah, land, people, and thought-illuminating how they enrich one another.